The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 29
As long as I am alive you may be sure I will come back to you.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 sure | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 alive | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 alive | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 alive | cop |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 long | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sure | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | cop |
| 10 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | you | long, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | future | I | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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