The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 56
‘I will not kill you, but I will leave you here to repent.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not kill, leave, repent · To what, where: you
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 (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 kill | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 kill | advmod |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | aux |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kill | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 leave | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 repent | mark |
| 15 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kill | future | I | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | future | I | you | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | repent | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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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