The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 127

‘My son,’ returned the old woman, ‘do not say words like these; you risk both our lives.

Who acts: son, you · What happens: return, not say, risk · To what, where: old woman, words, lives · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, 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	_	3 son	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
12	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 returned	conj
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 these	case
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 words	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 risk	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 risk	nsubj
20	risk	risk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	advcl
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 lives	det
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lives	nmod:poss
23	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 risk	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	My son	the old woman		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	infinitive · do-support	My son not said here	words	like these	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	risk	present	you	our lives		vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot

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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