English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 42
“I have not done anything,” she said: “if you will only spare me, I will do whatever you wish.
Who acts: girl, you · What happens: not do, say, spare, do, wish · To what, where: anything, girl, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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 | _ | 17 spare | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 spare | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 spare | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 spare | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 spare | aux |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 spare | advmod |
| 17 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 spare | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spare | conj |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 wish | obj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 wish | nsubj |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present · perfect | girl | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | girl | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | you | whatever | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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