The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 55

‘Stop! stop!’ she cried, hardly knowing what she said.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: stop, cry, know, say · To what, where: stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stop	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knowing	punct
10	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	11 knowing	advmod
11	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 said	obj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knowing	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	infinitive		stop		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stop=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past	daughter			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund	daughter not said here		hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	daughter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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