The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 72

‘You mustn’t sit like that,’ said she.

Who acts: You, Esben · What happens: not sit, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Esben), 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	_	5 sit	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	must	You					like that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Esben						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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