The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 63
‘I am sorry that I cannot accept the honour.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not accept · To what, where: honour
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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), 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 | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 accept | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 accept | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 accept | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 accept | advmod |
| 9 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 honour | det |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accept | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not accept | can | I | the honour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=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 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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