The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 111

‘Not so!’ cried the sultan, ‘but a shameful death you shall die!’

Who acts: shameful death · What happens: cry, die · To what, where: sultan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shameful death), 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 so	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sultan	det
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
10	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 die	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 death	det
13	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 death	amod
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the sultan					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic
2	die	shall	a shameful death						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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