The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 67
The youth answered humbly: ‘Forgive me, beautiful maiden, if I have unintentionally offended you.
Who acts: youth · What happens: answer, forgive, offend · To what, where: me, I
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 (youth), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Forgive | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Forgive | punct |
| 7 | Forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Forgive | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 maiden | punct |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Forgive | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 offended | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 offended | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 offended | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 offended | aux |
| 16 | unintentionally | unintentionally | ADV | _ | 17 offended | advmod |
| 17 | offended | offend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Forgive | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 offended | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | humbly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | forgive | infinitive | the youth not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offend a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | I | unintentionally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result |
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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