The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 17

‘You need neither fear my death nor desire it, for I have no heart in my breast!

Who acts: You, I, my · What happens: need, have, die · To what, where: fear, heart, breast

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 (You, I, my), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 fear	det
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 desire	cc
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 death	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 need	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 breast	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 breast	nmod:poss
19	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	You	neither fear		tree rules
2	have	present	I	no heart	my breast	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
3	die		my			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 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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