The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 77
“Do not give yourself any further trouble, Princess,” answered the Dwarf.
Who acts: Dwarf · What happens: not give, answer · To what, where: further trouble, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dwarf), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 trouble | det |
| 7 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trouble | amod |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Princess | punct |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trouble | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dwarf | det |
| 15 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | infinitive · do-support | any further trouble and Princess | yourself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient trouble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Dwarf | tree rules |
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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