The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 16
“My heart is still more wild than thine, For Fate is cruel unto me.
Who acts: heart, Fate · What happens: be
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 (heart, Fate), 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 | _ | 7 wild | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wild | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wild | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 wild | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 wild | amod |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 thine | case |
| 9 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 wild | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cruel | punct |
| 11 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 cruel | mark |
| 12 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cruel | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cruel | cop |
| 14 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wild | conj |
| 15 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 cruel | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My heart | still | than thine; wild property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Fate | unto pilot; cruel 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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