The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 36
‘How should I not love you?’ answered Sunlight; ‘how should I not be proud to serve a warrior such as you?
Who acts: I · What happens: not love, answer, not be, serve · To what, where: you, Sunlight, warrior · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 love | advmod |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 love | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 love | advmod |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 proud | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 proud | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 proud | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 proud | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 proud | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 proud | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 proud | cop |
| 19 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 answered | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 serve | mark |
| 21 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 proud | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 warrior | det |
| 23 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 serve | obj |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 26 you | case |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 such | fixed |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 warrior | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | should | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Sunlight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | should | I | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | I not said here | a warrior | such you | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Attribute |
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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