The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 82
But the elder one caught his raised arm, and whispered: “Be quiet! can’t you tell where you are?”
Who acts: elder one, you · What happens: catch, raise, whisper, be, not tell · To what, where: raised arm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (elder one, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arm | amod |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whispered | cc |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
| 14 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quiet | cop |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 quiet | punct |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tell | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 where | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 where | cop |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the elder one | bear's raised arm | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | whisper speech: ask | past | the elder one not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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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