The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 76
‘No, my Princess; but I love you so much that I feel I cannot express it, try as I may.
Who acts: I · What happens: love, feel, not express, try · To what, where: you, head
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 (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 | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 Princess | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 love | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Princess | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 love | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 feel | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | advcl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 express | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 express | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 express | advmod |
| 19 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feel | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 express | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 express | conj |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 may | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 may | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 try | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not express | can | I | head | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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