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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 14

One nymph who, like the rest, could not keep off the horrid topic of my occupation, said ‘You never write anything but fairy books, do you?’

Who acts: One nymph, You, my · What happens: not keep off, say, not write, do, occupy · To what, where: horrid topic, anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One nymph, You, my), 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

nummodnsubjnsubjpunctcasedetoblpunctauxadvmodacl:relclcompound:prtdetamodobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctpunctnsubjadvmodccompobjcccompoundconjpunctconjobjpunctpunctrootOneNUMnymphNOUNwhoPRON,PUNCTlikeADPtheDETrestNOUN,PUNCTcouldAUXnotPARTkeepVERBoffADPtheDEThorridADJtopicNOUNofADPmyPRONoccupationNOUN,PUNCTsaidVERB‘PUNCTYouPRONneverADVwriteVERBanythingPRONbutCCONJfairyNOUNbooksNOUN,PUNCTdoVERByouPRON?PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 nymphnummod
2nymphnymphNOUNNumber=Sing20 saidnsubj
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 keepnsubj
4,,PUNCT_7 restpunct
5likelikeADP_7 restcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 restdet
7restrestNOUNNumber=Sing11 keepobl
8,,PUNCT_11 keeppunct
9couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 keepaux
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 keepadvmod
11keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf2 nymphacl:relcl
12offoffADP_11 keepcompound:prt
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 topicdet
14horridhorridADJDegree=Pos15 topicamod
15topictopicNOUNNumber=Sing11 keepobj
16ofofADP_18 occupationcase
17mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 occupationnmod:poss
18occupationoccupationNOUNNumber=Sing15 topicnmod
19,,PUNCT_2 nymphpunct
20saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
21‘'PUNCT_24 writepunct
22YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs24 writensubj
23neverneverADVPronType=Neg24 writeadvmod
24writewriteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 saidccomp
25anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind24 writeobj
26butbutCCONJ_28 bookscc
27fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing28 bookscompound
28booksbookNOUNNumber=Plur25 anythingconj
29,,PUNCT_30 dopunct
30dodoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 writeconj
31youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs30 doobj
32??PUNCT_20 saidpunct
33’'PUNCT_20 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not keep offcouldOne nymphthe horrid topic of my occupationlike the restvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent topic=Theme
2say speech: assertpastOne nymphvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not writepresentYouanythingvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
4dopresentYou not said hereyouvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
5occupymynom occupation «act transitive»: 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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