The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 8
‘You may keep your mind easy, father,’ they replied.
Who acts: You, rooms, your · What happens: keep, reply, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, rooms, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 easy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | may | You | your mind | easy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | rooms = room | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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