The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 146
Then at last his heart melted; he was sorry for all the evil he had done out of pride, and implored Renelde to forgive him.
Who acts: last, death · What happens: melt, be, do out, implore, forgive · To what, where: pride, Renelde, death
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 melted | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 melted | nsubj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | nsubj |
| 6 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sorry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sorry | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorry | cop |
| 10 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 melted | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 evil | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 evil | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evil | det |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorry | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 evil | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pride | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pride | case |
| 20 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 implored | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 implored | cc |
| 23 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 melted | conj |
| 24 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 implored | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 forgive | mark |
| 26 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 implored | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forgive | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past | last | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | death | for all evil; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do out | past · perfect | death | pride | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | implore | past | last not said here | Renelde | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent renelde=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | forgive | to-infinitive | last not said here | death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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