The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 35
‘Shoot not at us any more unless thou desirest more pain than even now thou hast, but give us thy daughter without more words.’
Who acts: thou · What happens: desire, have, give · To what, where: more pain, daughter, us
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 (thou), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 us | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Shoot | nmod |
| 6 | any | any | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 us | advmod |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 desirest | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 desirest | nsubj |
| 10 | desirest | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Shoot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 pain | amod |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desirest | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 hast | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 now | advmod |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hast | advmod |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 hast | nsubj |
| 17 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 desirest | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hast | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 words | case |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 give | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shoot | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | thou | more pain | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | thou | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | thou not said here | thy daughter | us | without more words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient daughter=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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