The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 25

You see what a weariness my life will be to me under these circumstances, and yet I assure you I am not ungrateful to you for all your kindness!”

Who acts: You, I · What happens: see, be, assure, not be · To what, where: weariness, circumstances, you

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 weariness	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 weariness	det
5	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl:unmarked
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 me	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 me	cop
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 life	parataxis
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 circumstances	case
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 circumstances	det
14	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 assure	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 assure	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 assure	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 assure	nsubj
19	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 assure	iobj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ungrateful	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ungrateful	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ungrateful	advmod
24	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 assure	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ungrateful	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 kindness	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 kindness	det:predet
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kindness	nmod:poss
30	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ungrateful	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	what weariness		this circumstances		my life obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weariness=Stimulus
2	is	future						to me	tree rules
3	assure	present	I		you		yet		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not is	present	I		you			for your kindness; ungrateful property	tree rules

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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