The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 57
‘Only deliver me from death,’ he said, ‘and you will never be sorry for it.
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: deliver, say, not be · To what, where: me, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you), 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 deliver | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 deliver | advmod |
| 3 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 deliver | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deliver | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 deliver | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 sorry | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sorry | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sorry | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sorry | cop |
| 18 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sorry | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | infinitive | me | death | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | future | you | for death; sorry property | 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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