The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 129
“Don’t kill me, O king!
Who acts: you · What happens: not kill · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kill | advmod |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 king | discourse |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | king | king obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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