The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 245
My face is ashamed, that I should have done good to my master, and that he should repay me with evil.’
Who acts: face, I, heart · What happens: be, do, repay · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, I, heart), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ashamed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ashamed | cop |
| 4 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 done | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 repay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 repay | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 repay | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 repay | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 repay | aux |
| 20 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ashamed | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 repay | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 evil | case |
| 23 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 repay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My face | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | should · perfect | I | to my master; good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | repay | should | heart | me | with evil | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with evil=Theme |
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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