The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 30

‘Oh, no, dear friend, don’t shoot!

Who acts: you · What happens: not shoot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 shoot	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 shoot	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 shoot	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 shoot	advmod
11	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shoot	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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