The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

'I can't stop to listen to your "buts" and "yets,"' broke in the wolf rudely; 'let us get to the point, and the point is that I want to eat you and not talk to you.'

Who acts: I, yets, us, point · What happens: not stop, listen, break, let, get, be · To what, where: wolf, us, you

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, yets, us, point), 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 stop	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 listen	mark
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 buts	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 buts	nmod:poss
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 buts	punct
11	buts	but	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 listen	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 yets	punct
15	yets	yet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 broke	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 yets	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 yets	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 yets	punct
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wolf	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wolf	det
22	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obl
23	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	19 broke	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	conj
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 point	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 point	det
31	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 want	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 want	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 point	det
35	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 want	nsubj:outer
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 want	cop
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 want	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 want	nsubj
39	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 want	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 eat	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 talk	cc
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 talk	advmod
45	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 eat	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 you	case
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 talk	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stop	can	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	listen	to-infinitive	I not said here				to your buts	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to but=Theme
3	break	past	yets			the wolf	rudely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wolf=Location
4	let	infinitive	I not said here	us				tree rules
5	get	infinitive	us not said here				to the point result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to point=Result
6	is	present	the point				want property	tree rules
7	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the point not said here	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
8	not talk	infinitive	the point not said here		you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent

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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