The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 83
But from the moment I saw you I took a fancy to you, so if you agree, we might be married and might live together like princes, because I have great riches.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, take, agree, marry, live together, have · To what, where: you, fancy, we, great riches
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fancy | det |
| 11 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 married | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 married | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 agree | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 agree | nsubj |
| 18 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agree | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 married | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 married | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 married | aux:pass |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 live | cc |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 live | aux |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 married | conj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 live | advmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 princes | case |
| 29 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 31 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 riches | amod |
| 35 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | a fancy | you | moment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to you=Destination | ||
| 3 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | marry | might · passive | we | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | live together | might | like princes; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | have | present | I | great riches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient |
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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