The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 137

‘No, dear lady, that can never be till death parts us.

Who acts: that · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	5 lady	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lady	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parts	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 parts	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 parts	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 parts	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 parts	cop
11	till	till	ADP	_	13 parts	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parts	compound
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lady	nmod
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 parts	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	can	that				till death parts	us nmod	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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