The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 99
“Do not shoot, I implore you, noble prince!
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: not shoot, implore · To what, where: you
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, prince), 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 | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shoot | advmod |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 implore | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 implore | nsubj |
| 7 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 implore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 10 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 implore | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | implore in a quote | present | prince | you | noble prince obl | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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