The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 72
‘For mercy’s sake, don’t, your highness!
Who acts: you · What happens: not do · To what, where: highness
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 sake | case |
| 3 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sake | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 mercy | case |
| 5 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sake | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 highness | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 highness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | your highness | for mercy's sake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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