The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 24

‘Oh, Jack! you are a very good boy, but I wish you would not risk your precious life in the Giant’s castle.

Who acts: Jack, I, you · What happens: be, wish, not risk · To what, where: good boy, precious life, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, I, 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	_	4 Jack	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 Jack	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Jack	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 boy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wish	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 wish	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wish	nsubj
15	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 risk	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 risk	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 risk	advmod
19	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wish	ccomp
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
21	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 life	amod
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 risk	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Giant	det
25	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 castle	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Giant	case
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 risk	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Jack	a good boy		tree rules
2	wish	present	I	a good boy not said here		tree rules
3	not risk	would	you	your precious life	the Giant's castle	vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot

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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