The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 170
‘I will spare your life; but in return you must do something for me.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: spare, do · To what, where: life, something, return
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | _ | 4 spare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 spare | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spare | aux |
| 4 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spare | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spare | conj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | future | I | your life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | do | must | you | something | return | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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