The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 32

At this the dwarf cried out imploringly, ‘Oh, brother! spare my life, and I promise that neither I nor my comrades will ever trouble you any more.

Who acts: I, neither · What happens: cry out, spare, promise, trouble · To what, where: brother, life, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, neither), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 dwarf	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dwarf	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 cried	compound:prt
7	imploringly	imploringly	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 brother	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
14	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spare	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 promise	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 promise	nsubj
20	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 trouble	mark
22	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	29 trouble	nsubj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 trouble	nsubj
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 comrades	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 comrades	nmod:poss
26	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 I	conj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 trouble	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 trouble	advmod
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promise	ccomp
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 trouble	obj
31	any	any	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 promise	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past		brother		at this dwarf; imploringly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dwarf=Location
2	spare	infinitive		my life			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
3	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	trouble	future	neither	you	ever		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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