The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 125

‘Now I must not kiss you any more,’ she said, ‘or else I should kiss you to death.’

Who acts: I, queen · What happens: not kiss, say, kiss · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, queen), 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 kiss	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kiss	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kiss	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kiss	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kiss	advmod
6	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kiss	obj
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 kiss	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 kiss	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kiss	punct
15	‘	‘	SYM	_	16 or	cc
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 kiss	cc
17	else	else	ADV	_	20 kiss	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 kiss	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 kiss	aux
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 kiss	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kiss	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not kiss	must	I	you	now		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kiss	should	I	you		to death; else property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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