The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 86
Don’t hesitate, Princess, to tell your devoted shepherd how dearly you love him, as he is the very Prince your father sent you to marry.
Who acts: you, shepherd, father · What happens: not hesitate, tell, love, be, send, marry · To what, where: Princess, devoted shepherd, shepherd, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (you, shepherd, father), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hesitate | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 hesitate | advmod |
| 3 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hesitate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hesitate | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shepherd | nmod:poss |
| 10 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shepherd | amod |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 dearly | advmod |
| 13 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 15 love | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Prince | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 Prince | case |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Prince | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Prince | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Prince | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 Prince | advmod |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 love | parataxis |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sent | nsubj |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 love | parataxis |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | iobj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 marry | mark |
| 29 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sent | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hesitate | imperative · do-support | you not said here | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | your devoted shepherd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | present | you | shepherd | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | present | shepherd | as the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send | past | your father | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | your father not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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