The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 11
She threw her arms round Gerda and said, ‘They shall not kill you, so long as you are not naughty.
Who acts: Gerda, arms · What happens: throw, say, not kill · To what, where: arms, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, arms), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 Gerda | case |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kill | advmod |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 kill | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 naughty | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 naughty | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 naughty | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 naughty | advmod |
| 23 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 long | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Gerda | Gerda's arms | round Gerda | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gerda not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not kill | shall | arms = arm | you | long property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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