The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 74

But as I have plighted my word to another maiden, you will see yourself, and so will this young woman, that I cannot go back from my word, and be faithless to her whom I love.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: plight, see, not go back, be, love, word · To what, where: word, yourself, woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 plighted	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 plighted	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plighted	aux
5	plighted	plight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 see	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plighted	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 maiden	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plighted	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 woman	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 woman	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 woman	advmod
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 woman	aux
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 woman	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 go	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 word	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 word	nmod:poss
32	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 faithless	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 faithless	cc
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 faithless	cop
36	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 see	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 faithless	obl
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 love	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 love	nsubj
41	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 faithless	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	plight	present · perfect	I	my word			to another maiden	tree rules
2	see	future	you	yourself			this young woman obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus
3	not go back	can	I			my word		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	is	infinitive	you not said here		woman		faithless property	tree rules
5	love	present	I					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
6	word		my				to another maiden	nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
7	word		my					nom word «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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