The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 4

Just as they were going to shoot, the wolf spoke and said, ‘Do not shoot me, and I will give each of you one of my young ones.

Who acts: princes, wolf, I · What happens: go, shoot, speak, say, not shoot, give · To what, where: me, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, wolf, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 spoke	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shoot	mark
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoke	nsubj
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spoke	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 shoot	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 shoot	advmod
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shoot	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shoot	conj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 each	nmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 give	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 ones	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ones	nmod:poss
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ones	amod
32	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	princes = prince		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shoot	to-infinitive	princes = prince not said here		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	the wolf		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the wolf not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not shoot	infinitive · do-support		me	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	give	future	I	one of my young ones	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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