The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 42
If I do not find from the fairies that my birth is worthy of you, then, whatever be my feelings, I will never accept your hand.’
Who acts: I, fairies · What happens: not find, be, not accept · To what, where: whatever, hand
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, fairies), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 accept | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fairies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairies | det |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 worthy | nsubj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 birth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worthy | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 worthy | cop |
| 13 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 worthy | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whatever | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 whatever | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whatever | punct |
| 19 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 find | obj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 whatever | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 be | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 accept | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 accept | aux |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 accept | advmod |
| 27 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 accept | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 accept | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | from the fairies | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fairy=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the fairies | of you; worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | whatever | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not accept | future | I | your hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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