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title: ‘Oh, do not kill me yet!’ begged the fish; ‘I will bring you good lu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, do not kill me yet!’ begged the fish; ‘I will bring you good luck--indeed I will!’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 115

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‘Oh, do not kill me yet!’ begged the fish; ‘I will bring you good luck--indeed I will!’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not kill, beg, bring · **To what, where:** me, fish, good luck, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. 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.

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**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:pg5615:22:115
# text = ‘Oh, do not kill me yet!’ begged the fish; ‘I will bring you good luck--indeed I will!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **kill** | infinitive · do-support |  | me |  |  | yet |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past |  |  | the fish |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | future | I | good luck | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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