The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 73
‘Fair one, I know not by what enchantment thou art bound, but in the name of thy beloved Florimond I conjure thee to come back to the life which thou hast lost, but not forgotten.’
Who acts: I, thou, life · What happens: not know, conjure, come back, have, lose, not forget · To what, where: Fair one, thee, name, life, beloved Florimond
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thou, life), 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 | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 know | obj |
| 10 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | nsubj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 art | nsubj |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 art | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 conjure | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 conjure | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 conjure | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Florimond | case |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 Florimond | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Florimond | amod |
| 22 | Florimond | Florimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 conjure | nsubj |
| 24 | conjure | conjure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | conj |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 conjure | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 conjure | xcomp |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 life | det |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 hast | obj |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 hast | nsubj |
| 34 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 life | acl:relcl |
| 35 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 hast | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 forgotten | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 forgotten | cc |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 forgotten | advmod |
| 39 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 know | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 forgotten | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | I | Fair one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | conjure | present | I | thee | the name of thy beloved Florimond | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come back | to-infinitive | I not said here | the life | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thou | the life | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | the life not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | name | thy beloved Florimond | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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