The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 5
I begin to fear that this may affect the welfare of my subjects, therefore I wish that one of you should succeed to my crown; but in return for such a gift as this it is only right that you should do something for me.
Who acts: I, this, one, welfare, you, my · What happens: begin, fear, affect, wish, succeed, be · To what, where: welfare, return, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, this, one, welfare), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 begin | nsubj |
| 2 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fear | mark |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begin | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 affect | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 affect | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 affect | aux |
| 8 | affect | affect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fear | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 welfare | det |
| 10 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 affect | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 subjects | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 13 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 welfare | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 15 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 begin | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 succeed | mark |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 succeed | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 succeed | aux |
| 23 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wish | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 crown | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 crown | nmod:poss |
| 26 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 succeed | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 right | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 right | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 return | case |
| 30 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 right | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 gift | case |
| 32 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 gift | det:predet |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 gift | det |
| 34 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 return | nmod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 this | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 gift | nmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 right | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 right | cop |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 right | advmod |
| 40 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 begin | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 right | acl |
| 45 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 do | obj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 me | case |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 do | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fear | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | affect | may | this | the welfare of my subjects | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus welfare=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | therefore property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | succeed | should | one of you | to my crown | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | present | welfare | return for such gift as this | right property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | do | should | you | something | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | crown | my | nom crown «communication 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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