The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 79
Think how great must be my devotion, when, in spite of my fate, I still love on!’
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: think, be, love on, spite, fate · To what, where: great devotion, fate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 great | advmod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 devotion | amod |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 devotion | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 devotion | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 when | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 devotion | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spite | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spite | case |
| 12 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devotion | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fate | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spite | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 love | advmod |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 love | compound:prt |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | my great devotion and spite of my fate | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love on | present | I | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | spite | my fate | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | fate | my | nom fate «event 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 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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