The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 114
Don’t come and die here, and bring me to my death as well.’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: not come, die, bring · To what, where: me, death
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 die | cc |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 die | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bring | cc |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 death | nmod:poss |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bring | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 bring | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | you not said here | here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | me | my death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 4 | 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 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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