The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 188
I love your heart more than your crown, though that has about it a brightness as of something holy.
Who acts: I, that, your · What happens: love, have, crown · To what, where: heart, brightness
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 love | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 crown | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 crown | nmod:poss |
| 8 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 has | mark |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 brightness | det |
| 16 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 something | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 brightness | nmod |
| 20 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 something | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | your heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | that | a brightness | about crown; as something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Patient | |||
| 3 | crown | your | nom crown «communication 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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