The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 17
“Assure yourselves, O King and Queen, that your daughter shall not die of this disaster.
Who acts: you, daughter · What happens: assure, not die · To what, where: yourselves
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, daughter), 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 Assure | punct |
| 2 | Assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Assure | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 5 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | compound |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Assure | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 die | advmod |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Assure | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 disaster | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 disaster | det |
| 18 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yourselves | O King and Queen obl | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not die in a quote | shall | your daughter | of this disaster | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of disaster=Causer |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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