English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 17
Unless you love me, I shall never be happy more.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: love, not be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. 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 | Unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 3 love | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 happy | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | cop |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 happy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | shall | I | happy property | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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