The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 29
I beg now that you will bid me farewell, for my way is long and the fire of your love darts flame into the harvest of my heart.
Who acts: I, you, way, fire, your · What happens: beg, bid, be, dart, fire, love · To what, where: me, flame, harvest, love
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. 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, way, fire), 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 | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 beg | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | obj |
| 9 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 7 bid | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 long | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 long | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | cop |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bid | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 darts | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 darts | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fire | nmod |
| 22 | darts | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | conj |
| 23 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 darts | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 harvest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 harvest | det |
| 26 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 darts | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 harvest | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | now | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bid | future | you | me | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | my way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dart | present | the fire of your love | flame | the harvest of my heart | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flame=Theme into harvest=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | fire | your love | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | love | your | nom love «feeling 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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