The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 77

I only bring you these worthless trifles to show that I have not ceased to think of you, though I have been obliged to leave you for a time.’

Who acts: I · What happens: bring, show, not cease, think, oblige, leave · To what, where: worthless trifles, you, I · 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bring	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 trifles	det
6	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trifles	amod
7	trifles	trifle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bring	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ceased	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ceased	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ceased	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 ceased	advmod
14	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 show	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ceased	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 think	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obliged	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 obliged	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 obliged	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 obliged	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 obliged	aux:pass
24	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 think	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 obliged	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 leave	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	I	this worthless trifles	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination trifle=Theme
2	show	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cease	present · perfect	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here				of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	oblige	present · perfect · passive		I				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	leave	to-infinitive		you		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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