The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 42

But the princess has begged me to spare your lives, so you will be put into a ship and carried off to a desert island, where you will stay till you die.'

Who acts: you · What happens: beg, spare, put, carry off, stay, die · To what, where: princess, me, lives, you, ship, desert island

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 begged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 begged	aux
5	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spare	mark
8	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lives	nmod:poss
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spare	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	aux:pass
16	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 begged	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 ship	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carried	cc
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 put	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 carried	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 island	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 island	det
25	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 island	compound
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stay	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 stay	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 stay	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 stay	aux
31	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 island	conj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 die	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 die	nsubj
34	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 stay	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present · perfect · passive		the princess	me		tree rules
2	spare	to-infinitive		your lives			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
3	put	future · passive		you		a ship	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	carry off	past				a desert island	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to island=Destination
5	stay	future	you				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die	present	you				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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