The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 9
“Do not thus afflict yourself, my good master.
Who acts: you · What happens: not afflict · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afflict | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afflict | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afflict | advmod |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 afflict | advmod |
| 5 | afflict | afflict | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 afflict | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afflict | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afflict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not afflict in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | yourself | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer |
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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