Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 20
Stay where you are, and be happy still.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 are | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | cop |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stay | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | you not said here | still | happy 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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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