The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 59
Teach her to love you so that she cannot exist without you.
Who acts: you, cry · What happens: teach, love, not exist · To what, where: cry, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cry), 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 | Teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Teach | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Teach | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 exist | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exist | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 exist | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 exist | advmod |
| 11 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 love | xcomp |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 exist | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | imperative | you not said here | cry | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | love | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not exist not said to happen | can | cry | without you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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