The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 50
‘Don’t make such faces!’ said the little robber-girl.
What happens: not make, say · To what, where: such faces · 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: 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 make | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 faces | amod |
| 6 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 12 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 robber | punct |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | infinitive · do-support | such faces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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