The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 51

We loved each other so tenderly, and our tastes and interests were so much alike that we determined never to marry, but to spend our entire lives together.

Who acts: We, tastes, our · What happens: love, determine, not be, spend, taste · To what, where: each, entire lives

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, tastes, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 loved	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 tenderly	advmod
6	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loved	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 marry	cc
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tastes	nmod:poss
10	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 marry	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 interests	cc
12	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tastes	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	22 marry	advmod
16	alike	alike	SCONJ	_	19 determined	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 determined	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 determined	nsubj
19	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	advcl
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 marry	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 marry	mark
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loved	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spend	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 spend	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 spend	mark
26	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 marry	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lives	nmod:poss
28	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lives	amod
29	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spend	obj
30	together	together	ADV	_	26 spend	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	past	We	each	tenderly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	determine	past	we			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	our tastes and interests		marry property	tree rules
4	spend	to-infinitive	our tastes and interests not said here	our entire lives	together property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
5	taste		our			nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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