The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 183

The maiden answered, ‘Your prayers and your repentance come too late, and if I were to spare you everyone would think me a fool.

Who acts: maiden, prayers, I, you, Your · What happens: answer, come, spare, think, pray, repent · To what, where: me

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 (maiden, prayers, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 prayers	nmod:poss
7	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 repentance	cc
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 repentance	nmod:poss
10	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prayers	conj
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 late	advmod
13	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 think	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 spare	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 spare	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spare	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 spare	mark
20	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 think	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 think	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 think	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fool	det
27	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 think	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the maiden			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	Your prayers and your repentance		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spare a condition, not said to happen	past	I			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	would	you	me		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme fool=Attribute
5	pray		Your			nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	repent		your			nom repentance «feeling transitive»: 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 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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