The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 76

‘Dear youth,’ he said, ‘forgive me for my shameful conduct to you, and, as a sign that you pardon me, accept the golden horse as a present.

Who acts: emperor, you, sign, my · What happens: say, forgive, pardon, accept, conduct · To what, where: me, you, golden horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, you, sign, my), 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	_	3 youth	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 youth	amod
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 youth	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 youth	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forgive	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 forgive	punct
10	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 forgive	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 conduct	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 conduct	nmod:poss
14	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conduct	amod
15	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgive	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 forgive	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 accept	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 accept	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sign	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 sign	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sign	det
23	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accept	nsubj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 pardon	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 pardon	nsubj
26	pardon	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 accept	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pardon	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pardon	punct
29	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 forgive	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horse	det
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 horse	amod
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accept	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 present	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 present	det
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accept	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forgive	infinitive		me	you	for my shameful conduct	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for conduct=Attribute
3	pardon	present	you	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	accept	infinitive	a sign	the golden horse		as a present	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent horse=Theme as present=Attribute
5	conduct		my				nom conduct «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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