The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 33
‘Never will I bring shame upon you,’ urged the girl.
Who acts: I · What happens: not bring, urge · To what, where: shame, girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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 | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 bring | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 urged | ccomp |
| 6 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 11 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 urged | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | future | I | shame | upon you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shame=Theme | |||
| 2 | urge | past | the girl | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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