The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 35
Only, I must have a proof that he loves me as well as you do.’
Who acts: I, boy, you · What happens: have, love, do · To what, where: proof, me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 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, boy, 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 proof | det |
| 7 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 loves | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loves | nsubj |
| 10 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 loves | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 loves | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loves | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | I | a proof | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | present | boy | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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