The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 8
Now Ciccu could not forgive his master, whom he had served so faithfully, for sending him to his death without a thought, so he answered, ‘I rubbed myself over with fat, and I am not even singed.’
Who acts: Ciccu, I · What happens: not forgive, serve, send, answer, rub over, not singe · To what, where: master, Ciccu, death, myself
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 forgive | advmod |
| 2 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgive | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forgive | advmod |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgive | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 served | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 served | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 served | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 served | aux |
| 12 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 master | acl:relcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 faithfully | advmod |
| 14 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 12 served | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sending | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 sending | mark |
| 17 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 served | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sending | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 death | nmod:poss |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sending | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 thought | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thought | det |
| 24 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sending | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answered | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 answered | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 answered | nsubj |
| 28 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgive | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rubbed | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 rubbed | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 rubbed | nsubj |
| 32 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 answered | conj |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 rubbed | obj |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 fat | case |
| 36 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rubbed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 singed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 singed | cc |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 singed | nsubj |
| 40 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 singed | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 singed | advmod |
| 42 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 singed | advmod |
| 43 | singed | singe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 answered | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forgive | could | Ciccu | Ciccu's master | now | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | past · perfect · passive | Ciccu's master | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | send | gerund | Ciccu | Ciccu's death | without a thought | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Ciccu | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rub over | past | I | myself | with fat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Destination with fat=Theme | |||
| 6 | not singe | present · passive | I | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | die | Ciccu | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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