The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
Don't cry, my own little Mary Ann!
Who acts: you · What happens: not cry
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 4. 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cry | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 cry | advmod |
| 3 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mary | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Mary | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mary | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Mary | amod |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | parataxis |
| 9 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mary | flat |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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