The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 91

‘Do not be afraid!’ the lady hastened to say; ‘we do not want your blood for any bad purpose, but rather to give you freedom and happiness.’

Who acts: lady, we · What happens: not be, hasten, say, not want, give · To what, where: lady, blood, freedom, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, we), 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	_	5 afraid	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 afraid	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	cop
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 afraid	nsubj
10	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lady	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hastened	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 want	advmod
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 blood	nmod:poss
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 purpose	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 purpose	det
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 purpose	amod
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 give	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 give	cc
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 give	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afraid	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 happiness	cc
33	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 freedom	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive · do-support	the lady			afraid property	tree rules
2	hasten	participle		the lady not said here			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not want	present · do-support	we	your blood		for any bad purpose	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	the lady not said here	freedom and happiness	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient freedom=Theme

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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