The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 3
‘You shall not,’ cried the Black Gallows Bird; ‘they will hear you.’
Who acts: nuts · What happens: cry, hear · To what, where: Gallows Bird, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuts), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 shall | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 shall | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shall | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 shall | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bird | det |
| 9 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Gallows | amod |
| 10 | Gallows | Gallows | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Bird | compound |
| 11 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | aux |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Gallows Bird | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear | future | nuts = nut | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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