The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 65
But I will forgive you this time, because you are a stranger and knew no better.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: forgive, be, know · To what, where: you, stranger
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 forgive | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgive | aux |
| 4 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 forgive | obj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgive | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stranger | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 stranger | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 stranger | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stranger | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgive | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgive | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 better | advmod |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 knew | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | future | I | you | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | I not said here | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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