The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 89
And if you love me, Bellah, you won’t attempt to hinder a plan which will hasten our marriage.’
Who acts: you, plan, our · What happens: love, not attempt, not hinder, hasten, marry · To what, where: me, plan, marriage
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, plan, our), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attempt | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 love | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 love | nsubj |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 attempt | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 love | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bellah | punct |
| 7 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 love | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 love | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 attempt | nsubj |
| 10 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 attempt | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 attempt | advmod |
| 12 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hinder | mark |
| 14 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 attempt | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plan | det |
| 16 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hinder | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hasten | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hasten | aux |
| 19 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 plan | acl:relcl |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hasten | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 attempt | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 attempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | Bellah vocative | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not attempt | future | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not hinder | to-infinitive | you not said here | a plan | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer plan=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hasten | future | a plan | our marriage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent marriage=Patient | ||||
| 5 | marry | our | nom marriage «state 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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