The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 60

“Sire, I am only a shepherdess, and a poor girl, but, nevertheless, I will not marry you.”

Who acts: Celia · What happens: be, not marry · To what, where: shepherdess, you

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), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shepherdess	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 shepherdess	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shepherdess	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 shepherdess	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shepherdess	det
8	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sire	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 girl	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 girl	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sire	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 marry	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nevertheless	punct
17	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	22 marry	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nevertheless	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 marry	advmod
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Sire	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 marry	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Celia	a shepherdess					tree rules
2	not marry in a quote	future	Celia	you				nevertheless property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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