The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 18

‘Never mind my name,’ answered she, ‘but rejoice that it is permitted to me to show you a way to lessen your grief.

Who acts: my · What happens: not mind, answer, rejoice, permit, show, lessen · To what, where: name, queen, me, way, you, grief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mind	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rejoice	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 rejoice	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 rejoice	cc
13	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 permitted	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 permitted	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 permitted	aux:pass
17	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rejoice	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 permitted	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 permitted	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 show	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 way	det
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 show	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 lessen	mark
26	lessen	lessen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 way	acl
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 grief	nmod:poss
28	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lessen	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not mind	infinitive		my name		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			queen	tree rules
3	rejoice	infinitive				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	permit	present · passive		name	me	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive		a way	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
6	lessen	to-infinitive		your grief		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grief=Patient
7	name		my			nom name «communication 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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