The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 3
‘Be not angry, lady,’ said Luned, ‘but listen to my counsel.
Who acts: Luned · What happens: not be, say, listen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Luned), 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 | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 angry | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 angry | advmod |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Luned | Luned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 listen | cc |
| 14 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 counsel | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive | angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Luned | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | Luned not said here | to my counsel | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=Theme |
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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