The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 15

'Leave him alone,' she said fiercely, 'or I will send for his father.

Who acts: you, mother, I · What happens: leave, say, send · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother, I), 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 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Leave	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Leave	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Leave	parataxis
9	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 send	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 send	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 send	aux
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Leave	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	rest	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	mother		fiercely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	send	future	I		for rest's father	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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