The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 182
‘Forgive me! forgive me!’ cried the Prince; ‘I know too well how deeply I have wronged you, and most heartily do I repent it.’
Who acts: I · What happens: forgive, cry, know, wrong, repent · To what, where: me, Prince, you, table · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 2 | Forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Forgive | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Forgive | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forgive | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forgive | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 well | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 know | advmod |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 deeply | advmod |
| 19 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 22 wronged | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wronged | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wronged | aux |
| 22 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 know | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 wronged | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 repent | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 repent | cc |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 heartily | advmod |
| 27 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 30 repent | advmod |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 repent | aux |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 repent | nsubj |
| 30 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 repent | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forgive | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wrong | present · perfect | I | you | deeply property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | repent | present · do-support | I | table | heartily property | tree rules |
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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