The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 110
Then the beautiful maiden fell on her knees before him, saying, ‘Oh, my dearest, forgive me the ill I have done you!
Who acts: beautiful maiden, I · What happens: fall, say, forgive, do · To what, where: knees, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful maiden, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 knees | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knees | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fell | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgive | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgive | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 20 forgive | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dearest | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dearest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dearest | dearest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Oh | vocative |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 20 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 forgive | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ill | det |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forgive | xcomp |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 forgive | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 done | iobj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the beautiful maiden | donkey's knees | before Hunter; then | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the beautiful maiden not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forgive | infinitive | me | ill property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | I | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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