The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 117
‘Oh, mistress, my life will not be lost, nor yours either; open, I pray you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not lose, pray · To what, where: life, you
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistress | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 mistress | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistress | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 lost | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yours | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 yours | cc |
| 14 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lost | obl |
| 15 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 yours | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 open | punct |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lost | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | nsubj |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 open | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | future · passive | my life | mistress obl; yours obl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules |
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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