The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 108

“Do not shoot, I pray you, noble prince!” cried the wild duck; “I have two little sons at home; they will die of hunger if I am not there to bring them food.”

Who acts: you, wild duck, wood pigeon, arrows · What happens: not shoot, pray, cry, have, die, not be · To what, where: you, two little sons, home, arrows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wild duck, wood pigeon, arrows), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/20/108/