The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 76
‘Continue your work, sweetheart.
Who acts: you, your · What happens: continue, work · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
| 2 | Continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 work | nmod:poss |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Continue | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sweetheart | punct |
| 6 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | imperative | you not said here | your work and sweetheart | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | your | nom work «act 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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