The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 12
‘If that is all, tell me what I have got to do, and I will do it,’ cried Bernez, letting fall his chisel.
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, get, do, cry, let, fall · To what, where: me, courage, chisel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, I), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 got | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 got | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | aux |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 got | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 23 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 cried | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 letting | punct |
| 26 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 cried | advcl |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 letting | xcomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 chisel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fall | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | that | me | tell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | future | I | courage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | let | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fall | infinitive | man's chisel | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chisel=Result |
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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