The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 266
I will cherish and love it as my dearest possession.’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: cherish, love, possess · To what, where: Gold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cherish | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cherish | aux |
| 3 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 love | cc |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cherish | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 possession | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 possession | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 possession | amod |
| 10 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cherish | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cherish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | future | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | love | infinitive | I not said here | Gold | as my dearest possession | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | possess | my | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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