The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 80

‘Quietly, quietly! this will never do; your wife is very ill, you must let her rest all to-day.’

Who acts: this, wife, you · What happens: not do, be, let, rest · To what, where: wife, all

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, wife, 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	_	9 do	punct
2	Quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 quietly	punct
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 Quietly	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Quietly	punct
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ill	punct
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ill	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ill	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 ill	advmod
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 do	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ill	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 rest	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do	future	this			quietly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	your wife			ill property	tree rules
3	let	must	you	wife			tree rules
4	rest	infinitive	wife not said here	all	day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme

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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