The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 22
“You don’t deserve any mercy at our hands,” said his captor “but as you are such a good shot you may be of great use to us, so we shall spare your life, if you will do us a service.
Who acts: You, captor, we · What happens: not deserve, say, be, spare, do · To what, where: mercy, hands, good shot, us, life, service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, captor, we), 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 | _ | 5 deserve | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 deserve | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserve | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 deserve | advmod |
| 5 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mercy | det |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserve | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deserve | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserve | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserve | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 captor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | captor | captor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 shot | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 shot | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 shot | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 shot | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shot | cop |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 shot | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shot | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shot | amod |
| 24 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 captor | appos |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 use | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 use | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 use | cop |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 use | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 use | amod |
| 30 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shot | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 us | case |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 use | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 spare | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 spare | advmod |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 spare | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 spare | aux |
| 37 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spare | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 do | punct |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 do | mark |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 do | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 do | aux |
| 44 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 spare | conj |
| 45 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 do | iobj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 service | det |
| 47 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 do | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deserve in a quote | present · do-support | You | any mercy | our hands | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Niels's captor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | such good shot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | you | such good shot not said here | us | of great use | tree rules | ||
| 5 | spare in a quote | shall | we | your life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 6 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | a service | us | tree rules |
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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