The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 230
And besides, it depends on me to break the spell, and I love her too much to let her remain like this.’
Who acts: it, I, witch · What happens: depend, break, love, let, remain · To what, where: spell, witch
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, I, witch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 depends | cc |
| 2 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 depends | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 depends | nsubj |
| 5 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 depends | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 break | mark |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 depends | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spell | det |
| 11 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 love | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 depends | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 love | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 let | mark |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 much | acl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 remain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 depends | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 5 depends | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | it | on me | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | the spell | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient | |||||
| 3 | love | present | I | witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | to-infinitive | witch | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remain | infinitive | witch not said here | like this | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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