The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 4
My dog you must kill, but spare my son, Andras.'
Who acts: dog · What happens: kill, spare · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dog | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spare | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 spare | cc |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Andras | punct |
| 12 | Andras | Andras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | must | My dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | My dog not said here | my son | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent son=Asset |
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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