The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 36
My heart answers to your tenderness, and yet I am fearful.
Who acts: heart, I · What happens: answer, be
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 (heart, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tenderness | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tenderness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fearful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fearful | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 fearful | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fearful | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fearful | cop |
| 12 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answers | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | My heart | to your tenderness | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to tenderness=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | yet | fearful property | tree rules |
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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