The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 28
'Do not hurt me, little maiden; I am so old, so old, I have not much longer to live.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not hurt, be, have, live · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 maiden | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 maiden | amod |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hurt | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 old | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 have | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 longer | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | little maiden obl | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | I | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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