The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 75
From the moment that I first saw her, sitting in the forest surrounded by flowers, I have never ceased to think of her night and day, and, although I love her, I am quite convinced that she will never care for me.
Who acts: I, love · What happens: see, sit, surround, not cease, think, love · To what, where: moment, forest, love
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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, love), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ceased | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 saw | advmod |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sitting | punct |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 forest | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surrounded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ceased | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ceased | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 ceased | advmod |
| 21 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ceased | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 night | nmod:poss |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 think | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 day | cc |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 night | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 love | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 love | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 love | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 34 love | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 love | nsubj |
| 34 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ceased | parataxis |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 love | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 convinced | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 convinced | nsubj |
| 38 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 convinced | cop |
| 39 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 convinced | advmod |
| 40 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 love | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 care | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 care | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 care | aux |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 care | advmod |
| 45 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 convinced | ccomp |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 me | case |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 care | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | the moment | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | I not said here | the forest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | the forest not said here | by flowers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not cease | present · perfect | I | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | night | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | love | present | I | love | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is | present | I | convinced property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not care | future | love | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=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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