The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 91
‘Don’t talk nonsense,’ exclaimed the shark, who did not like being laughed at.
Who acts: you, shark · What happens: not talk, exclaim, not like, laugh · To what, where: nonsense, shark
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shark), 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 talk | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | aux |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shark | det |
| 10 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shark | acl:relcl |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 laughed | aux:pass |
| 17 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 laughed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | imperative · do-support | you not said here | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | you not said here | the shark | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shark=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | the shark | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | laugh not said to happen | gerund · passive | the shark not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
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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