The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 51
‘Be quiet, old woman.
Who acts: you · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. 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 | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quiet | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | old woman obl; quiet property | tree rules |
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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