The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 51
‘Madam, this treasure is yours, since none of the dangers and difficulties I have gone through have been sufficient to make me deserve it.’
Who acts: Madam, I, me · What happens: be, go through, make, deserve · To what, where: yours, me, treasure
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, I, me), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 treasure | det |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yours | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 yours | cop |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sufficient | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 yours | punct |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 none | case |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 gone | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dangers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dangers | det |
| 13 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 none | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 difficulties | cc |
| 15 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangers | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | aux |
| 18 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 yours | parataxis |
| 19 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 gone | advmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sufficient | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 sufficient | cop |
| 22 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sufficient | csubj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 deserve | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sufficient | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Madam | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go through | present · perfect | I | since none | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | sufficient property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | deserve | infinitive | me not said here | treasure | 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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