The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 31
“You will go to sleep now,” said the cat, “and you will not mind if I leave you for a little while.
Who acts: You, cat · What happens: go, sleep, say, not mind, leave · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, cat), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | xcomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mind | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mind | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mind | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mind | advmod |
| 19 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 leave | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | nsubj |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 while | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 while | det |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 while | amod |
| 27 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | You | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | now | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not mind in a quote | future | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | leave a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the cat = cat | you | while | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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