The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 55
He implored his pardon, and promised to atone for all his faults.
Who acts: Bramintho · What happens: implore, promise, atone, pardon, fault · To what, where: pardon
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 (Bramintho), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 implored | nsubj |
| 2 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 implored | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 promised | cc |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 implored | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 atone | mark |
| 9 | atone | atone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 faults | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 faults | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faults | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 atone | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 implored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | implore | past | Bramintho | Bramintho's pardon | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Bramintho not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | atone not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bramintho not said here | for Bramintho's faults | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pardon | Bramintho | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fault | Bramintho | nom fault «act 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 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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