The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 58
And, above all, do not desert me until you have saved me from my cruel misery.”
Who acts: all, you · What happens: not desert, save · To what, where: me, cruel misery
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 desert | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 desert | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desert | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 desert | advmod |
| 8 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 desert | obj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 saved | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 saved | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 saved | aux |
| 13 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 desert | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saved | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 misery | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 misery | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 misery | amod |
| 18 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saved | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 desert | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 desert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not desert | infinitive · do-support | all | me | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme i=Source | ||||
| 2 | save | present · perfect | you | me | my cruel misery | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from misery=Source |
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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