The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 152
It will be very hard for me to part from you, but it has to be, and you must make up your mind to it.’
Who acts: death, you, your · What happens: be, have, make up, mind · To what, where: mind, death
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 (death, you, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 part | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 part | mark |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 part | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 be | mark |
| 17 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 has | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | aux |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 make | compound:prt |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mind | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | death | for part from you; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | death | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | death not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make up | must | you | your mind | death | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 5 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition 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 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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