The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 61

“Stop your silly chatter!” answered the man crossly, “or I will give you a bath in the river.”

Who acts: man, your · What happens: stop, answer, give, chatter · To what, where: silly chatter, bath, you, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, your), 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	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chatter	nmod:poss
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chatter	amod
5	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stop	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	crossly	crossly	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bath	det
20	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bath	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive		your silly chatter				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality chatter=Eventuality
2	answer speech: express	past	the man				crossly property	tree rules
3	give in a quote	future	the man = man	a bath	you	the river		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bath=Theme
4	chatter in a quote		your					nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=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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