The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 59
“You will be still, won’t you, Pivi?” she said.
Who acts: You, woman · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, woman), 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 | _ | 9 you | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 still | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 still | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 still | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 you | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 still | punct |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 you | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 you | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pivi | punct |
| 11 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 you | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pivi | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pivi | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | You | still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 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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