The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 1
“When Love within a heart would reign, Useless to strive against him ‘tis.
Who acts: Love · What happens: reign, strive
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love), 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 | _ | 8 reign | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 reign | advmod |
| 3 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reign | nsubj |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Love | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reign | aux |
| 8 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Useless | punct |
| 10 | Useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reign | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 strive | mark |
| 12 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Useless | xcomp |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strive | obl |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 tis | punct |
| 16 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strive | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign in a quote | would | Love within a heart | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strive in a quote | to-infinitive | Love within a heart not said here | against Love | 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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