The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 30
“Snow-white and Rose-red, Don’t beat your lover dead.”
What happens: not beat · To what, where: lover
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 white | punct |
| 2 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 white | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Snow | punct |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 red | cc |
| 6 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 red | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rose | punct |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 white | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beat | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 beat | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 beat | advmod |
| 12 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 white | parataxis |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lover | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beat | obj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beat | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not beat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | your lover | dead property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lover=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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