The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 50

Princess, I have loved you so long, and yet how dare I tell you of my love! what hope can there be for an unhappy sheep like myself?”

Who acts: I, my · What happens: love, tell, hope, be · To what, where: Princess, dare, 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 (I, my), 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	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Princess	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	aux
5	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 loved	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 tell	advmod
13	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 love	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 love	nmod:poss
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 hope	nsubj
22	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	parataxis
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sheep	aux
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 sheep	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 sheep	cop
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 sheep	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sheep	det
28	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sheep	amod
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hope	obj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 myself	case
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 sheep	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 hope	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present · perfect · passive		Princess				long property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	dare	you		yet	of my love	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	hope	present							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	can				there		for a unhappy sheep; like myself	tree rules
5	love		my						nom love «feeling 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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