The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 84
I am too much interested in the matter for her to promise anything without my consent--you must be mistaken.”
Who acts: I, Princess, my · What happens: be, promise, mistake, consent · To what, where: matter, anything, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess, 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 | 5 interested | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 interested | amod |
| 5 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 matter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interested | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 promise | mark |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 promise | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 promise | mark |
| 12 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 interested | advcl |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 promise | obj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 consent | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 consent | nmod:poss |
| 16 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 promise | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 mistaken | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 mistaken | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 mistaken | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 21 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 promise | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interested | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | the matter | interested property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | to-infinitive | Princess | anything | without my consent | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 3 | mistake | must · passive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | consent | my | nom consent «communication 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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