The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 16
But as she ceased to talk, he said quietly, ‘Go on.’
Who acts: Daughter, river · What happens: cease, talk, say, go on · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daughter, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 ceased | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ceased | nsubj |
| 4 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ceased | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ceased | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 13 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 Go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | Daughter | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | Daughter not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | river | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go on | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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