The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 90

Spare my life! what pleasure would you get from a poor feeble little fellow like me?

Who acts: you, pleasure · What happens: spare, get · To what, where: life

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: who acts (you, pleasure), 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	Spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 life	nmod:poss
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spare	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Spare	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 get	obj
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Spare	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	15 fellow	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fellow	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
13	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fellow	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Spare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	imperative	you not said here	my life					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	get	would	pleasure					from a poor feeble little fellow like me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from fellow=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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