The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 60
‘Oh, try again, my dear.
Who acts: you · What happens: try
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 try | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 try | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dear | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 try | vocative |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | again | my dear vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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