The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 83
I consent to your going, but, believe me, I can give you no stronger proof of my love than by so doing.”
Who acts: I, your, my · What happens: consent, go, believe, give, do, proof · To what, where: me, stronger proof, you, love
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, your, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 consent | nsubj |
| 2 | consent | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 going | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 consent | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 believe | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 believe | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 but | punct |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 consent | parataxis |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 believe | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 believe | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 proof | det |
| 17 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 proof | amod |
| 18 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proof | nmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 love | fixed |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 doing | mark |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 doing | advmod |
| 25 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 give | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consent | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | present | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | your | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | believe | infinitive | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give | can | I | no stronger proof of my love | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient proof=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | gerund | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | proof | my love | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | 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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