The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 60

But believe me, if it were for twice as long I would bear it joyfully rather than give you up.’

Who acts: you, doubt, I · What happens: believe, be, bear, give up · To what, where: me, doubt, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, doubt, I), 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	_	2 believe	cc
2	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 believe	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bear	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 long	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 long	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 twice	case
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 long	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 bear	advcl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bear	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bear	aux
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 believe	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bear	obj
16	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	14 bear	advmod
17	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 give	cc
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 rather	fixed
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bear	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 give	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here		me		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	doubt			long, twice property	tree rules
3	bear	would	I	doubt		joyfully property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	give up	infinitive	I not said here		you		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source

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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