The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 96
But in order that our love may last for ever, you must give me for the ring three drops of blood from the little finger of your left hand.’
Who acts: love, you, our · What happens: last, give, love · To what, where: order, three drops, me, little finger
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 (love, you, our), 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 | _ | 8 last | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 order | case |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 last | obl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 last | mark |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 last | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 last | aux |
| 8 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 last | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 last | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ring | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 drops | nummod |
| 20 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drops | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 finger | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 finger | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 finger | amod |
| 26 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hand | amod |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finger | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 last | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | may | our love | order | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | must | you | three drops of blood | me | the little finger of your left hand | for the ring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drop=Theme for ring=Asset | |
| 3 | love | our | nom love «feeling 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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