The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 56
‘Thou art,’ said she; ‘shut thine eyes and stir neither hand nor foot.’
Who acts: wife · What happens: say, stir · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
| 10 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 11 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shut | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shut | conj |
| 15 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 foot | cc |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stir | infinitive | wife not said here | neither hand nor foot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=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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