The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 12
‘You’re putting me off too long.’
Who acts: You · What happens: 're, put off · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ’re | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 putting | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 putting | compound:prt |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 putting | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 're | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put off | gerund | You not said here | me | long property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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