The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 65
Set out as soon as you please; only promise me that you will come back, for I love you too much to be able to live without you.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: set out, promise, come back, love, be, live · To what, where: me, you
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 (you, I), 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 | Set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 promise | advcl |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Set | compound:prt |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Set | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 soon | obl |
| 7 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 promise | discourse |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 please | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 promise | advmod |
| 10 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promise | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promise | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 love | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 love | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 love | nsubj |
| 20 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 promise | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 love | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 love | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 able | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 much | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 live | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promise | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | you not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | imperative | you not said here | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | love | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | without you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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