The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 40

“Put my obedience and my patience to some test by which you can judge of my unalterable love.”

Who acts: you, my · What happens: put, judge, obey, love · To what, where: obedience

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 (you, my), 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	_	2 Put	punct
2	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 obedience	nmod:poss
4	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 patience	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 patience	nmod:poss
7	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obedience	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 test	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 test	det
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 judge	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 judge	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 judge	aux
15	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Put	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 love	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 love	nmod:poss
18	unalterable	unalterable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 love	amod
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 judge	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my obedience and my patience	to some test	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent obedience=Goal
2	judge in a quote	can	you		of my unalterable love	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of love=Theme
3	obey in a quote		my			nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	love in a quote		my			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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