The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 91

“This chance meeting with an unhappy princess for whom I once had a passing fancy, before I was lucky enough to meet you, has affected me a little, I admit, but you are so much more to me than she is that I would rather die than leave you.”

Who acts: sight, you, Princess · What happens: have, be, meet, affect, admit, die · To what, where: passing fancy, you, chance meeting, sight

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 (sight, you, Princess), 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	_	4 meeting	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 meeting	det
3	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meeting	compound
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 affected	nsubj:pass
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 princess	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 princess	det
7	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princess	amod
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meeting	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 princess	nmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fancy	det
15	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fancy	compound
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lucky	punct
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 lucky	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lucky	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lucky	cop
21	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	conj
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 lucky	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lucky	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 meet	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meeting	punct
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 affected	aux
28	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 affected	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 affected	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 admit	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 admit	nsubj
34	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 affected	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 more	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 more	cc
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 more	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 more	cop
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADV	_	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 admit	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 more	obl
44	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 is	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 is	nsubj
46	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 more	advcl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 die	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 die	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 die	aux
50	rather	rather	ADV	_	51 die	advmod
51	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 admit	advcl
52	than	than	SCONJ	_	53 leave	mark
53	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 die	xcomp
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 leave	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 admit	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	sight	a passing fancy		once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient
2	is in a quote	past	sight			enough, lucky property	tree rules
3	meet in a quote	to-infinitive	sight not said here	you			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
4	affect in a quote	present · perfect · passive		this chance meeting with a unhappy princess for this chance meeting with a unhappy princess for this chance meeting		a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result
5	admit speech: other in a quote	present	sight				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	you		sight	more property	tree rules
7	be in a quote	present	Princess				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	die in a quote	would	sight				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	leave in a quote	infinitive	sight not said here	you			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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