The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 71
“Strike! strike! and do not spare, or your Princess is lost for ever!”
What happens: not spare, lose · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. 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 strike | punct |
| 2 | Strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strike | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Strike | punct |
| 4 | strike | strike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spare | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 spare | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 spare | advmod |
| 9 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strike | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 lost | cc |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux:pass |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strike | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 lost | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spare in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present · passive | your Princess | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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