The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 14
I love you dearly, and you shall marry me, and I’ll either save your life or die with you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: love, marry, 'll, save, die · To what, where: you, me, life
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 love | obj |
| 4 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 2 love | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 marry | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 love | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’ll | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ’ll | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’ll | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 16 save | cc:preconj |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’ll | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 save | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 die | cc |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 save | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 die | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | you | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | marry | shall | you | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | 'll | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | save | present | I not said here | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | infinitive | I not said here | with you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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