The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 31
“Your constancy has overcome me,” she said; “I can no longer oppose your wishes.
Who acts: princess, your · What happens: overcome, say, oppose, wish · To what, where: constancy, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, 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 | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 constancy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 overcome | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 oppose | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 oppose | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 oppose | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 oppose | aux |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 oppose | advmod |
| 17 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 oppose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Your constancy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | oppose in a quote | can | princess | your wishes | long property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient | |||
| 4 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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