The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 88
‘I would be glad to hear the story too, and if it be as wonderful as the last, I will pardon this young man as I did the other.’
Who acts: I, story · What happens: be, hear, pardon, do · To what, where: story, young man, other
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | cop |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 hear | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pardon | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pardon | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 wonderful | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wonderful | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wonderful | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 wonderful | advmod |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pardon | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 last | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wonderful | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wonderful | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 pardon | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 pardon | aux |
| 24 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 man | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pardon | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 did | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pardon | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 other | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 did | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | I not said here | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | story | as the last; wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pardon | future | I | this young man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | I | the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
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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