The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 30
“Stop! stop! make it stop, and you shall have back your cock and basket,” cried the man and his wife.
Who acts: stop, you, man · What happens: stop, make, have back, cry · To what, where: stop, cock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stop, you, man), 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 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stop | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stop | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cock | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 basket | cc |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cock | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wife | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | stop | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive | stop | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | stop not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have back in a quote | shall | you | your cock and basket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | the man and cock's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/30/