The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 117

‘Be careful with the sugar, Otto,’ said the big sister; but Otto’s plate was like a snowdrift in winter, with just a little red under the snow.

Who acts: big sister, plate · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big sister, plate), 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 careful	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 careful	cop
3	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sugar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sugar	det
6	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 careful	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Otto	punct
8	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sugar	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 careful	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 careful	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sister	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sister	amod
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 snowdrift	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 snowdrift	cc
17	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 plate	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Otto	case
19	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 snowdrift	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 snowdrift	cop
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 snowdrift	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snowdrift	det
23	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 winter	case
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 snowdrift	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 red	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 red	case
28	just	just	ADV	_	31 red	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 red	obl:unmarked
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 snowdrift	appos
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 snow	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 snow	det
34	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 red	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			with the sugar; careful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the big sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Otto's plate	winter	like a snowdrift	tree rules

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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