The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 77
“Though I was still deadly cold with terror I plucked up my courage and said: ‘Get away from me, evil spirit; I do not desire your treasures.’
Who acts: I, your · What happens: be, pluck up, say, get away, not desire, treasure · To what, where: courage, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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 | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 2 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 cold | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 cold | advmod |
| 6 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cold | amod |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cold | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 plucked | nsubj |
| 11 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 terror | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 plucked | compound:prt |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 courage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plucked | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plucked | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Get | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Get | punct |
| 19 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 Get | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Get | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spirit | punct |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spirit | amod |
| 25 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Get | parataxis |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 desire | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 desire | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 desire | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 desire | advmod |
| 30 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cold | parataxis |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 32 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 desire | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | I | still | with terror; cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pluck up in a quote | past | I | my courage | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get away in a quote | infinitive | from me; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source | |||||
| 5 | not desire in a quote | present · do-support | I | your treasures | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treasure in a quote | your | nom treasure «possession 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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