The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 49
“Well, do not be in a hurry,” continued the queen, understanding that he would not be prevented.
Who acts: hurry · What happens: not be, continue, understand, not prevent · To what, where: hurry, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurry), 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 | _ | 9 hurry | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 hurry | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurry | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hurry | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hurry | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hurry | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hurry | det |
| 9 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurry | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurry | punct |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 understanding | punct |
| 16 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 continued | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 prevented | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 prevented | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 prevented | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 prevented | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 prevented | aux:pass |
| 22 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 understanding | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | a hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | a hurry | the queen | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | understand | gerund | a hurry not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not prevent | would · passive | hurry | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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