The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 59
But you, my horse, if you love me, must be swifter than them all, for there is a part of my heart that suffers--the best part of my heart that is in danger.’
Who acts: you, part, heart · What happens: love, be, suffer · To what, where: me, danger
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, part, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 swifter | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 swifter | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 love | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 horse | punct |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 swifter | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swifter | cop |
| 14 | swifter | swift | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swifter | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 is | case |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 swifter | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 suffers | nsubj |
| 28 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 heart | acl:relcl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 part | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 part | det |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 part | amod |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 part | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 danger | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 danger | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 danger | case |
| 39 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heart | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 swifter | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 swifter | 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 | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | must | you | than swift; swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | a part of my heart and the best part of my heart | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suffer | present | my heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | my heart | danger | 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 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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