The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 122

'Lie still, and we will soften them,' answered the kind little partridge.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: lie, soften, answer · To what, where: shoes, kind little partridge

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 Lie	punct
2	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 Lie	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 soften	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 soften	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 soften	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 soften	aux
8	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Lie	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soften	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Lie	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 partridge	det
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 partridge	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 partridge	amod
16	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	soften	future	we	shoes = shoe			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	you not said here		the kind little partridge		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent partridge=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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