The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 29
Are you not leaving me to my death perhaps?”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not leave, die · To what, where: me, death
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leaving | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leaving | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 leaving | advmod |
| 4 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leaving | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 death | nmod:poss |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaving | obl |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 leaving | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaving | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | present · progressive | you | me | my death | perhaps property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to death=Recipient | ||
| 2 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/29/