The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 34

‘You must lie still,’ said the little robber-girl, ‘or else I shall stick my knife into you!’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: lie, say, stick · To what, where: knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 lie	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 lie	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
11	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 girl	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 robber	punct
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stick	punct
15	‘	‘	SYM	_	16 or	cc
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 stick	cc
17	else	else	ADV	_	20 stick	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 stick	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stick	aux
20	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knife	nmod:poss
22	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stick	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 stick	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 stick	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 stick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	must	You		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stick	shall	I	my knife		into you; else property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knife=Theme into you=Destination

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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