The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 28
‘Shoot not at me again,’ said he, ‘unless you desire death.
Who acts: Shoot · What happens: say, desire · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shoot), 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 | _ | 2 Shoot | punct |
| 2 | Shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 me | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Shoot | nmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 me | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shoot | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shoot | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 13 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 desire | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 desire | nsubj |
| 15 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desire | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Shoot at me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | desire a condition, not said to happen | present | Shoot | death | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot death=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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