The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 74
‘Do you think I love you so little that I need all these gifts to remind me of you?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, love, need, remind · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 love | nsubj |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 love | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 need | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 need | nsubj |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 little | advcl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 gifts | det:predet |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 gifts | det |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 love | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 remind | mark |
| 17 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 love | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 remind | iobj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 remind | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | love | present | I | you | little obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 3 | need | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | of you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of you=Topic |
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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