The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 51

I am certainly not going to spare the old grandmother.’

Who acts: I · What happens: not go, spare · To what, where: old grandmother

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spare	mark
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandmother	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandmother	amod
10	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spare	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present · progressive	I					certainly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spare	to-infinitive	I not said here	the old grandmother					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent grandmother=Asset

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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