The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 115

‘Oh, do not kill me yet!’ begged the fish; ‘I will bring you good luck--indeed I will!’

Who acts: I · What happens: not kill, beg, bring · To what, where: me, fish, good luck, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	6 kill	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 kill	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 kill	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kill	advmod
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 kill	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 kill	punct
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bring	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bring	aux
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 luck	amod
21	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 will	punct
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 will	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 will	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bring	advcl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not kill	infinitive · do-support		me		yet	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past			the fish		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring	future	I	good luck	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/115/