The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 36

I desired your success with all my soul, not only for your own sake, but also for my own, because I could not get back my proper shape till you had become master of the beautiful bird, though I am quite ignorant as to your reason for seeking it.’

Who acts: I, you, reason · What happens: desire, not get back, become, be, seek · To what, where: success, proper shape, master, shape

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (I, you, reason), 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	2 desired	nsubj
2	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 success	nmod:poss
4	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desired	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 soul	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 soul	det:predet
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 soul	nmod:poss
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 desired	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sake	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sake	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 sake	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 sake	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sake	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sake	amod
15	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soul	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 own	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 own	cc
18	also	also	ADV	_	21 own	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 own	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 own	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 desired	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 get	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 get	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 get	advmod
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 own	conj
28	back	back	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shape	nmod:poss
30	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shape	amod
31	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 become	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 become	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 become	aux
35	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 get	advcl
36	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 become	xcomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 bird	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bird	amod
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 master	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 ignorant	punct
42	though	though	SCONJ	_	46 ignorant	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 ignorant	nsubj
44	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 ignorant	cop
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 ignorant	advmod
46	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 desired	parataxis
47	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	50 reason	case
48	to	to	ADP	_	47 as	fixed
49	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 reason	nmod:poss
50	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ignorant	obl
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 seeking	mark
52	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 reason	acl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 seeking	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 ignorant	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	desire	past	I	your success	with my soul and your own sake	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot success=Theme
2	not get back	could	I	my proper shape		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect	you	master of the beautiful bird		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	I		as your reason; ignorant property	tree rules
5	seek	gerund	your reason not said here	shape		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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