The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 52
“Hush, be quiet!” the older cats said; “all servants cannot be pretty.”
Who acts: older cats, servants · What happens: be, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (older cats, servants), 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 | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 quiet | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cats | det |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cats | amod |
| 10 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 servants | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 servants | det |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 be | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 be | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 18 be | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | the older cats not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the older cats | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not can in a quote | can | all servants | pretty property | vn exist-47.1 «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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