The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 14
Did I rescue you only to be destroyed myself?”
Who acts: I · What happens: rescue, destroy · To what, where: you, myself
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rescue | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rescue | nsubj |
| 3 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rescue | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 destroyed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 destroyed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rescue | advcl |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 destroyed | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 rescue | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 rescue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | past · do-support | I | you | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | myself | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: myself=Patient |
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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