The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 88
“Oh! go to bed at once,” she cried; “you must be very ill indeed to look like that!”
Who acts: you, river · What happens: go, cry, be, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, river), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 go | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 ill | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ill | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ill | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 ill | advmod |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cried | advcl |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 ill | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ill | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 that | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 look | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | to bed | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | river | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | you | ill, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | like that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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