The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 62
Say nothing, and keep quiet, won’t you, Pivi?”
Who acts: you · What happens: say, keep · To what, where: nothing · 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), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wo | punct |
| 8 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wo | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wo | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Pivi | punct |
| 12 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nothing | Pivi obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «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 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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