The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 79
But, even if I am dying of love for her, I shall pretend to hate her until I am set free.”
Who acts: I · What happens: die, pretend, hate, be · To what, where: 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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pretend | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dying | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 dying | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 dying | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dying | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dying | aux |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pretend | csubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dying | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dying | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pretend | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 pretend | aux |
| 15 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hate | mark |
| 17 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pretend | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hate | obj |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 free | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 free | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | cop |
| 22 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 free | amod |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hate | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretend | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | I | of love; for Fairy | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of love=Causer | ||||
| 2 | pretend | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hate | to-infinitive | I not said here | Fairy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | free property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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