--- title: 'By your favour let me go, and do not kill me,' said the deer, turni… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'By your favour let me go, and do not kill me,' said the deer, turning to the prince with tears in her eyes, 'for I have far to run and much to do.' Who acts: you, me, I, your. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/67/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/) / 67 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 67 'By your favour let me go, and do not kill me,' said the deer, turning to the prince with tears in her eyes, 'for I have far to run and much to do.' **Who acts:** you, me, I, your · **What happens:** let, go, not kill, say, turn, have · **To what, where:** me, deer, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, I, your), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:25:67 # text = 'By your favour let me go, and do not kill me,' said the deer, turning to the prince with tears in her eyes, 'for I have far to run and much to do.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 kill kill VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | by your favour | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **kill** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the deer | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent deer=Topic | | 5 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | to the prince *result*; with tears in horse's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result | | 6 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **run** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | much | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **favour** | | your | | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/68/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/25/)