The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 11
‘You swear,’ said the Prince, ‘that you will love me till you die, but I fear your faithless heart, and I feel that I shall soon have to seek the Fairy Despair, ruler of half this island.
Who acts: You, Prince, I · What happens: swear, say, love, die, fear, feel · To what, where: me, faithless heart, Fairy Despair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Prince, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swear | nsubj |
| 3 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 love | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 love | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 love | aux |
| 14 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 love | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 die | nsubj |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 love | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fear | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 fear | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fear | nsubj |
| 22 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 die | conj |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heart | amod |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fear | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feel | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 feel | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 feel | nsubj |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 have | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | aux |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 have | advmod |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 feel | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 seek | mark |
| 36 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 have | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Despair | det |
| 38 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Despair | amod |
| 39 | Despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seek | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ruler | punct |
| 41 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Despair | appos |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 island | case |
| 43 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 45 island | det:predet |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 island | det |
| 45 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ruler | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | You | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | love | future | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | die | present | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | fear | present | I | your faithless heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | shall | I | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | seek | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Fairy Despair | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=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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