The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 123
‘Alas! dear Prince, do not rob me of my silver and my gold.’
Who acts: you · What happens: not rob · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rob | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 9 rob | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prince | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Prince | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Alas | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 rob | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 rob | advmod |
| 9 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 rob | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silver | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 silver | nmod:poss |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rob | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gold | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gold | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silver | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rob | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rob | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rob | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | of my silver and my gold | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of silver=Source |
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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