English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 18
“But if I love you,” says she, “will you not fly away and leave me one of these fine days?”
Who acts: I, hush · What happens: love, say, not fly away, leave · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, hush), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 love | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 fly | punct |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 fly | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fly | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fly | advmod |
| 16 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | parataxis |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 fly | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fly | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 leave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 days | det |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 days | amod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not fly away in a quote | future | hush | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | hush not said here | me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme one=Attribute |
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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