The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 20
“Stay where you are,” said the giant, “or I’ll put my foot on you, and there won’t be much of you left after that.”
Who acts: you, I, much · What happens: stay, be, say, put, not be, leave · To what, where: giant, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, much), 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 are | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 foot | nmod:poss |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 much | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 much | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 much | expl |
| 24 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 much | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 much | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 much | cop |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 left | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 much | nmod |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 that | case |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 left | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | put in a quote | future | I | my foot | on you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on you=Destination | |||
| 5 | not is in a quote | future | there | of you; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | past | much | after that | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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