The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 56
So sister opened the door and said, ‘Now mind and get back by nightfall, and say your little rhyme.’
Who acts: sister, your · What happens: open, say, mind, get back, rhyme · To what, where: door, little rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, your), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mind | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 mind | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 mind | advmod |
| 11 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mind | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 get | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 nightfall | case |
| 16 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 mind | advcl |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rhyme | nmod:poss |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rhyme | amod |
| 22 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | sister | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mind | infinitive | now | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | get back | infinitive | by nightfall | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | infinitive | your little rhyme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic | |||||
| 6 | rhyme | your | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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