The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 41
I loved your father as if he had been my brother.
Who acts: I, father · What happens: love, be · To what, where: father
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 11 brother | case |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brother | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 brother | cop |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | I | your father | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | father | as my brother | 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 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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