The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 57
“Don’t call me names,” she said, “or you will get the worst of it,” giving him as she spoke such a violent push that he fell panting into the lemon bushes.
Who acts: Maria, you, gardener · What happens: not call, say, get, give, speak, fall · To what, where: Maria, worst, gardener, violent push, lemon bushes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, you, gardener), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worst | det |
| 18 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worst | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 23 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 giving | iobj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | nsubj |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 giving | advcl |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 push | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 push | det |
| 30 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 push | amod |
| 31 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoke | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 fell | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 push | advcl |
| 35 | panting | pant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 fell | xcomp |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 bushes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bushes | det |
| 38 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bushes | compound |
| 39 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 panting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Maria | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme name=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maria | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | future | you | the worst | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bad=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | Maria not said here | gardener | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | Maria | such violent push | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | gardener | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pant | gerund | gardener not said here | the lemon bushes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into bush=Recipient |
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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