The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 74

‘Oh, Percinet! this fatal skein will be the death of me if you will not forgive me and help me once more.’

Who acts: Percinet, you · What happens: be, not forgive, help · To what, where: death, me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percinet, 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 Percinet	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 Percinet	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 death	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Percinet	punct
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 skein	det
7	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skein	amod
8	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 death	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 death	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 death	nmod
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 forgive	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forgive	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 forgive	advmod
19	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 death	acl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 forgive	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgive	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 help	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 death	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 death	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	Percinet	the death		of me	tree rules
2	not forgive a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	help	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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