The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 17

I shall take it as a proof of your gratitude to me if you neither forget nor delay this duty, and I promise that so long as the sun’s earliest rays find my favourite spring the clearest and sweetest in all my meadows, you two shall not be parted from one another.’

Who acts: I, you, earliest rays, sun · What happens: take, forget, delay, promise, find, not part · To what, where: course, duty, you, gratitude

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, earliest rays, sun), 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 take	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 proof	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 proof	det
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 gratitude	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gratitude	nmod:poss
10	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proof	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 gratitude	nmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 forget	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
15	neither	neither	ADV	_	16 forget	advmod
16	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	advcl
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 delay	cc
18	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 forget	conj
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 duty	det
20	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 delay	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 promise	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 promise	nsubj
24	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 sweetest	nsubj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sweetest	amod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 find	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rays	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 sun	case
32	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 rays	amod
33	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 find	nsubj
34	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 sweetest	advcl
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 spring	nmod:poss
36	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 spring	amod
37	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 find	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sweetest	det
39	clearest	clear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 sweetest	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sweetest	cc
41	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 promise	ccomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 meadows	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 meadows	det:predet
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 meadows	nmod:poss
45	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sweetest	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 parted	punct
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 parted	nsubj
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 parted	nsubj:pass
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 parted	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 parted	advmod
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 parted	aux:pass
52	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	conj
53	from	from	ADP	_	54 one	case
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 parted	obl
55	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	54 one	fixed
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	shall	I	course		as a proof of your gratitude to me	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as proof=Attribute
2	forget a condition, not said to happen	present	you			neither property	tree rules
3	delay	present	you not said here	this duty			vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent duty=Source
4	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	find	present	the sun's earliest rays		spring		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	not part	shall · passive		you		from one	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from one=Co-Patient
7	proof			your gratitude to me			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	ray		the sun				nom ray «phenomenon 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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