The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 13
Oh, do stop, just for a minute.”
Who acts: you · What happens: stop
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 stop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 minute | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 minute | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 minute | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative · do-support | you not said here | minute | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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 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.
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