The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 41
“‘For five years,’ she said, ‘you shall be a sheep, and lord of this pleasant land, while I, no longer able to see your face, which I loved so much, shall be better able to hate you as you deserve to be hated.’
Who acts: lion, you · What happens: say, be, see, love, hate, deserve · To what, where: sheep, face, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 3 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 years | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sheep | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sheep | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sheep | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sheep | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sheep | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sheep | det |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lord | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lord | cc |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sheep | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 land | det |
| 22 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lord | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 able | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 able | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 able | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 able | punct |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 longer | advmod |
| 29 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 able | advmod |
| 30 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 able | xcomp |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 loved | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 loved | obj |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 loved | nsubj |
| 38 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 face | acl:relcl |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 much | advmod |
| 40 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 loved | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 able | punct |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 able | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 able | cop |
| 44 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 able | advmod |
| 45 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 see | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 hate | mark |
| 47 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 able | xcomp |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 hate | obj |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 51 deserve | mark |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 deserve | nsubj |
| 51 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 hate | advcl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 hated | mark |
| 53 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 hated | aux:pass |
| 54 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 deserve | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 56 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | shall | you | a sheep and lord of this pleasant land | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | lion not said here | your face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | past | lion | your face | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | able, well property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hate in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | deserve in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | hate in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF» |
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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