The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 217

Good old man, do save me, or I shall die of cold and hunger!’

Who acts: Good old man, I · What happens: save, die · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good old man, 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 save	aux
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 save	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 save	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cold	case
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 die	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hunger	cc
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 save	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	infinitive · do-support	Good old man	me					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	die	shall	I					of cold and hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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