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The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 29

Then the King continued: “My love for her is so great that if all the leaves on the trees had tongues they could not express it; my very life depends on my winning her.

Who acts: King, love, leaves, life, Princess, My · What happens: continue, be, have, not express, depend, win · To what, where: tongues, love, maid

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, love, leaves, life), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctpunctnmod:possnsubjcasenmodcopadvmodconjmarkmarkdet:predetdetnsubjcasedetnmodadvclobjnsubjauxadvmodadvclobjpunctnmod:possadvmodnsubjconjmarknsubjadvclobjpunctrootThenADVtheDETKingPROPNcontinuedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTMyPRONloveNOUNforADPherPRONisAUXsoADVgreatADJthatSCONJifSCONJallDETtheDETleavesNOUNonADPtheDETtreesNOUNhadVERBtonguesNOUNtheyPRONcouldAUXnotPARTexpressVERBitPRON;PUNCTmyPRONveryADVlifeNOUNdependsVERBonSCONJmyPRONwinningVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 continuedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Kingdet
3KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing4 continuednsubj
4continuedcontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5::PUNCT_4 continuedpunct
6“"PUNCT_13 greatpunct
7MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 lovenmod:poss
8loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing13 greatnsubj
9forforADP_10 hercase
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 lovenmod
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 greatcop
12sosoADV_13 greatadvmod
13greatgreatADJDegree=Pos4 continuedconj
14thatthatSCONJ_27 expressmark
15ififSCONJ_22 hadmark
16allallDETPronType=Tot18 leavesdet:predet
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 leavesdet
18leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur22 hadnsubj
19ononADP_21 treescase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 treesdet
21treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur18 leavesnmod
22hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 expressadvcl
23tonguestongueNOUNNumber=Plur22 hadobj
24theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 expressnsubj
25couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin27 expressaux
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 expressadvmod
27expressexpressVERBVerbForm=Inf13 greatadvcl
28ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 expressobj
29;;PUNCT_33 dependspunct
30mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 lifenmod:poss
31veryveryADV_32 lifeadvmod
32lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing33 dependsnsubj
33dependsdependVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 continuedconj
34ononSCONJ_36 winningmark
35mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 winningnsubj
36winningwinVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 dependsadvcl
37hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 winningobj
38..PUNCT_4 continuedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1continuepastthe Kingthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2is in a quotepresentMy love for maidgreat propertytree rules
3have a condition, not said to happen, in a quotepastall leaves on the treestonguesvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
4not express in a quotecouldleaves = leaflovevn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5depend in a quotepresentmy lifevn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6win in a quotegerundthe Princess = princessmaidvn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
7love in a quoteMyfor maidnom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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