The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 103

Save me this minute, or I shall die of terror.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: save, die · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Save	obj
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 minute	det
4	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Save	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 die	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Save	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 terror	case
11	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Save	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	me			minute		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	die	shall	I					of terror	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of terror=Causer

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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