The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 80
I am in no way to blame; perhaps my housekeeper has done you some injury of which I know nothing.’
Who acts: I, housekeeper · What happens: be, blame, do, know · To what, where: way, injury, you, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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, housekeeper), 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 | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blame | mark |
| 7 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 done | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 done | advmod |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 housekeeper | nmod:poss |
| 11 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 blame | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 done | iobj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 injury | det |
| 16 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 know | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 injury | acl:relcl |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 know | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | no way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blame | to-infinitive | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | my housekeeper | some injury | you | perhaps property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | know | present | I | nothing | of some injury | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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