The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 48
‘It is to your brother that you must confess, and I desire that you shall ask his forgiveness.
Who acts: crime, you, I · What happens: be, confess, desire, ask · To what, where: brother, forgiveness
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crime, you, I), 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 | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 confess | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 confess | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 confess | aux |
| 10 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brother | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desire | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nsubj |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ask | aux |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desire | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forgiveness | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | crime | to your brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confess | must | you | your brother not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | shall | you | enough's forgiveness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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