The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 6
“Don’t try to get up a quarrel with me.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not try, get up · To what, where: quarrel
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), 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 get | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quarrel | det |
| 9 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a quarrel | with the other = other | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quarrel=Stimulus |
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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