The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 75
It is true that I love a charming princess, but if the Fairy should set me free my gratitude would oblige me to love her only.”
Who acts: way, I, Fairy, gratitude · What happens: be, love, set, oblige · To what, where: charming princess, me, Fairy
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (way, I, Fairy, gratitude), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 love | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nsubj |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 8 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | compound |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 set | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 true | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | obj |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 set | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 20 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oblige | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 oblige | aux |
| 22 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | parataxis |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 oblige | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 love | mark |
| 25 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 oblige | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 love | obj |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 love | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | way | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | present | I | a charming princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set a condition, not said to happen | should | the Fairy | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | |||
| 4 | oblige | would | my gratitude | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | love | to-infinitive | my gratitude not said here | Fairy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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