The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 53
But how could I be sure that you would not be like other men and tire of me from the moment you were sure I loved you?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not be, love · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 6 sure | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sure | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 men | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 men | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 men | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 men | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 men | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tire | cc |
| 16 | tire | tire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tire | nmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | cop |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moment | amod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | would | you | moment | like other men and tire of me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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