The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 167

As for me, since I have possessed your portrait I have wandered over the whole world to find you, and, now we have met, I see that you are ten times lovelier than I could have imagined, and I would give all I own to win your love.’

Who acts: I, we, you, your · What happens: possess, wander, find, meet, see, be · To what, where: portrait, whole world, you, love

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wandered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 possessed	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 possessed	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 possessed	aux
8	possessed	possess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 wandered	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 portrait	nmod:poss
10	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possessed	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wandered	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wandered	aux
13	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 world	amod
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wandered	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wandered	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 met	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 met	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 met	punct
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 met	advmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 met	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 met	aux
27	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 wandered	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 met	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 lovelier	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 lovelier	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 lovelier	cop
34	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 times	nummod
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lovelier	obl:unmarked
36	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 see	obl
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 imagined	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 imagined	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 imagined	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 imagined	aux
41	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 lovelier	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 give	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 give	cc
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 give	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 give	aux
46	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wandered	parataxis
47	all	all	ADV	_	49 own	advmod
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 own	nsubj
49	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 give	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 win	mark
51	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 own	xcomp
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 love	nmod:poss
53	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 win	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wandered	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess	present · perfect	I	your portrait				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot portrait=Theme
2	wander	present · perfect	I		the whole world		as me	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
4	meet	present · perfect	we			now		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	you			time	lovely property	tree rules
7	imagine	could · perfect	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	give	would	I					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
9	own	present	I				all property	tree rules
10	win	to-infinitive	I not said here	your love				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality
11	portray		your					nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent
12	love		your					nom love «feeling 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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