The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 4

“Don’t go!” said the boy again.

Who acts: boy · What happens: not go, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	infinitive · do-support							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the boy				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «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.

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