The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 82
Do not refuse the aid of your most faithful lover.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not refuse · To what, where: aid
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: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 refuse | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 refuse | advmod |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 aid | det |
| 5 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 refuse | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lover | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lover | nmod:poss |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 faithful | advmod |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lover | amod |
| 10 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aid | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the aid of your faithful lover | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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