The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 43

I have borrowed these peas from my master, and thought to take a short cut across the forest; but I have lost myself, as you see.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: borrow, think, take, lose, see · To what, where: peas, master, short cut, forest, myself

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 borrowed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 borrowed	aux
3	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 peas	det
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 borrowed	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 master	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borrowed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 borrowed	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cut	det
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cut	amod
16	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lost	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 lost	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 lost	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	aux
24	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 borrowed	conj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 lost	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	borrow	present · perfect	I	this peas	my master	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pea=Theme from master=Source
2	think speech: other	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	take	to-infinitive		a short cut	the forest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme
4	lose	present · perfect	I	myself		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality
5	see	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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 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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