More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 1
"No, no," said the giant, "stop at home and mind your grinding."
What happens: say, stop, mind · To what, where: giant, home, grinding · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mind | cc |
| 16 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stop | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grinding | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grinding | grinding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mind | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | home | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | infinitive | your grinding | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grinding=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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