The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 115
Nevertheless, he does not cease to persecute me and to kill my subjects.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: not cease, persecute, kill · To what, where: me, subjects
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 6 cease | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cease | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cease | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cease | advmod |
| 6 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persecute | mark |
| 8 | persecute | persecute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cease | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 persecute | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persecute | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kill | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | present · do-support | monkey | nevertheless property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persecute | to-infinitive | monkey not said here | me | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | monkey not said here | my subjects | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 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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