The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 122
‘Don’t get lost, and come back safely in the evening,’ said the big sister.
Who acts: big sister · What happens: not lose, come back, 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), 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 | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lost | parataxis |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sister | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sister | amod |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | infinitive · passive · do-support | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | evening | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the big sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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