The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 155

“Celia has loved you ever since she first saw you, only she would not tell you while you were so obstinate and naughty.

Who acts: Celia, you · What happens: love, see, not tell, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Celia, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3065): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
2	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 loved	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	aux
4	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 saw	advmod
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 saw	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	17 tell	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loved	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 obstinate	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 obstinate	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obstinate	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 obstinate	advmod
23	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tell	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 naughty	cc
25	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 obstinate	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	love in a quote	present · perfect	Celia	you				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	past	Celia	you		ever	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	would	Celia		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is in a quote	past	you				obstinate property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		you not said here					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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/39/155/