The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 37
Yet pardon the slave, for he was sorely tempted.’
Who acts: you · What happens: pardon, tempt · To what, where: slave
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 2 pardon | cc |
| 2 | pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slave | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pardon | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tempted | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 tempted | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tempted | aux:pass |
| 9 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 10 tempted | advmod |
| 10 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pardon | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pardon | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pardon | imperative | you not said here | the slave | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tempt | past · passive | slave | sorely property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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