The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 93
I shall never feel safe till I have made it impossible for me to leave my solitude and to satisfy my passions.’
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not feel, make, leave, satisfy · To what, where: ring, solitude, passions
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 feel | advmod |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 feel | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 leave | mark |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 impossible | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 solitude | nmod:poss |
| 17 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 satisfy | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 satisfy | mark |
| 20 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 passions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | passions | passion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 satisfy | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | shall | I | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | I | ring | impossible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | me | my solitude | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitude=Theme | ||||
| 4 | satisfy | to-infinitive | me not said here | my passions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus passion=Experiencer |
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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