The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 49

And yet, when I compared you to salt, to show how much I loved you, you thought slightingly of me and you chased me from your presence.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: compare, show, love, think, chase · To what, where: you, much, me, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 compared	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 compared	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 compared	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 compared	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 compared	nsubj
6	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 compared	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 salt	mark
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compared	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 show	mark
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 compared	parataxis
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 loved	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 loved	nsubj
16	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 show	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 loved	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 compared	parataxis
21	slightingly	slightingly	ADV	_	23 me	advmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 thought	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 chased	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 chased	nsubj
26	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 chased	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 presence	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 presence	nmod:poss
30	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 chased	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 compared	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 compared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	past	I	you		yet		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	show	to-infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	love	past	I	much				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	you				of me	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	chase	past	you	me	your presence			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from presence=Trajectory

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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