The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 31
‘Oh, please don’t do that,’ cried both the girls, very frightened.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, cry · To what, where: that, girls
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 do | discourse |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 14 girls | cc:preconj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frightened | punct |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 frightened | advmod |
| 17 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative · do-support | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you not said here | the girls | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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