The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 23
Get out of my sight at once--I have done with you,’ he stammered, choking with passion as he came up to the young man, who was cutting a stick in front of the door, whistling gaily the while.
Who acts: you, I, house, young man, my · What happens: get out, do, stammer, choke, come up, cut · To what, where: sight, stick, front
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 (you, I, house, young man), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Get | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 done | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stammered | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 stammered | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stammered | nsubj |
| 17 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 choking | punct |
| 19 | choking | choke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stammered | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 passion | case |
| 21 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 choking | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 choking | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 man | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cutting | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 cutting | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cutting | aux |
| 33 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 man | acl:relcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stick | det |
| 35 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cutting | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 front | case |
| 37 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cutting | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 door | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 front | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 whistling | punct |
| 42 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 cutting | conj |
| 43 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 45 while | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 while | det |
| 45 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 whistling | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | imperative | you not said here | my sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | I | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stammer speech: other | past | house | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | choke | gerund | house not said here | with passion | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with passion=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come up | past | house | to the young man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | cut | past · progressive | the young man | a stick | front of the door | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Product | |||
| 7 | whistle | gerund | the young man not said here | while | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition 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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