More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 34

However, of my clemency I will spare thee thy life and thy property if you can answer me but three questions."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: spare, answer · To what, where: thee, me

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. 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), 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	However	however	ADV	_	8 spare	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 clemency	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clemency	nmod:poss
5	clemency	clemency	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spare	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 spare	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spare	aux
8	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 spare	obj
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spare	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 property	cc
13	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 property	nmod:poss
14	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 life	conj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 answer	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 answer	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	aux
18	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spare	advcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 answer	obj
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 questions	cc
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 questions	nummod
22	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 answer	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 spare	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 spare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	future	I	thee				of my clemency; however property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient life=Asset
2	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	you		me				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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