The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 35
‘Make an end of these fine speeches, madam.
Who acts: you · What happens: make · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 speeches | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 speeches | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speeches | amod |
| 8 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 madam | punct |
| 10 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speeches | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a end of this fine speeches and madam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
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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