Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 63
"I'm sure I beg your pardon," said my grandfather "but might I ask you a question?"
Who acts: grandfather, Patrick, your · What happens: be, beg, say, ask, pardon · To what, where: pardon, question, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, Patrick, your), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beg | nsubj |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beg | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beg | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 ask | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 question | det |
| 21 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my grandfather = grandfather | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | my grandfather = grandfather | your pardon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | my grandfather | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | might | Patrick | a question | you | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pardon in a quote | your | nom pardon «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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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