The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 81
'You are right,' said the prince; 'but it is with sorrow I give her up to you, for though I have wounded her yet I love her deeply.'
Who acts: You, prince, plan, I · What happens: be, say, give up, wound, love · To what, where: sorrow, Eglantine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, prince, plan, 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sorrow | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sorrow | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorrow | cop |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sorrow | case |
| 16 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorrow | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 give | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wounded | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 wounded | mark |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 wounded | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wounded | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wounded | aux |
| 28 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 love | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wounded | obj |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 28 wounded | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 love | nsubj |
| 32 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | parataxis |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 love | obj |
| 34 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 32 love | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | plan | with sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | present | I | sorrow not said here | Eglantine | to you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 5 | wound | present · perfect | I | Eglantine | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | love | present | I | Eglantine | deeply property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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