The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 40

In vain Saphir declared that love made them equal; Serpentine would only reply: ‘I love you too much to allow you to marry beneath your rank.

Who acts: love, Serpentine, I · What happens: declare, make, reply, love, allow, marry · To what, where: vain Saphir, parents, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (love, Serpentine, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 Saphir	case
2	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Saphir	amod
3	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 declared	obl
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 love	det
6	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 made	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct
11	Serpentine	Serpentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 reply	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reply	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 reply	advmod
14	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 declared	parataxis
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 love	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 love	nsubj
18	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 reply	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 love	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 love	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 allow	mark
23	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 love	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 allow	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 marry	mark
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 allow	xcomp
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 rank	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 rank	nmod:poss
29	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 marry	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past				vain Saphir		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	past	that love	parents = parent			equal property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	reply speech: assert	would	Serpentine					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	love	present	I	you				tree rules
5	allow	to-infinitive	I not said here		you			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				beneath your rank	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 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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