The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 54

If you can win Potentilla’s heart by the ordinary methods I cannot oppose you, but I warn you that I will not put up with any of your usual tricks.’

Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: win, not oppose, warn, not put up, trick · To what, where: heart, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 win	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 win	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 win	aux
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 warn	advcl
5	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Potentilla	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 methods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 methods	det
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 methods	amod
11	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 oppose	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 oppose	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 oppose	advmod
15	oppose	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 methods	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 oppose	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 warn	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 warn	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 warn	nsubj
20	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 warn	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 put	advmod
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 warn	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 put	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 any	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 put	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 tricks	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tricks	nmod:poss
32	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tricks	amod
33	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 any	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 warn	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 warn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	win a condition, not said to happen	can	you	Potentilla's heart		by the ordinary methods	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality
2	not oppose	can	I	you			vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	warn speech: warn	present	I		you		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not put up	future	I			with any	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	trick		your				nom trick «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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