The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 30
Breathe upon the yellow side and you will become like the pretty shepherdess you so much admire, and you will have won the love of the handsome shepherd whose picture I have already seen you studying with interest.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: breathe, become, admire, win, see, study · To what, where: pretty shepherdess, love, picture, handsome shepherd
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (you, I), 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 | Breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 side | det |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 side | amod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breathe | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 become | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Breathe | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 shepherdess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shepherdess | det |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shepherdess | amod |
| 13 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 admire | nsubj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 admire | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 admire | advmod |
| 17 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 shepherdess | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 won | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 won | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 won | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 won | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 won | aux |
| 23 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Breathe | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 love | det |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 won | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 shepherd | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shepherd | det |
| 28 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shepherd | amod |
| 29 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 love | nmod |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 31 picture | nmod:poss |
| 31 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shepherd | nmod |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 seen | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 seen | aux |
| 34 | already | already | ADV | _ | 35 seen | advmod |
| 35 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 picture | acl:relcl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 studying | nsubj |
| 37 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 seen | advcl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 interest | case |
| 39 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 studying | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | imperative | you not said here | upon the yellow side | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | become | future | you | like the pretty shepherdess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | admire | infinitive | you | the pretty shepherdess not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherdess=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | win | future · perfect | you | the love of the handsome shepherd the handsome shepherd picture's picture | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | see | present · perfect | I | the handsome shepherd the handsome shepherd picture's picture's picture not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | study | gerund | you | with interest | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | love | the handsome shepherd the handsome shepherd the handsome shepherd's picture's picture | nom love «feeling 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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