The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 26
My devotion knows no bounds, but my absurd name has already involved me in a quarrel with one of your courtiers.
Who acts: devotion, My · What happens: know, involve, devote, name · To what, where: bounds, absurd name, quarrel
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devotion, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 2 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 bounds | det |
| 5 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knows | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 involved | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 involved | cc |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 name | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 involved | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 involved | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 involved | advmod |
| 13 | involved | involve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 knows | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 involved | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 quarrel | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 quarrel | det |
| 17 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 involved | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 quarrel | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 courtiers | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | My devotion | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | involve | present · perfect · passive | my absurd name | a quarrel with one of your courtiers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | devote | My | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | name | my | nom name «communication 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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