The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 125
But don’t rattle your chain so, it makes me crack!’
Who acts: you, chain, me · What happens: not rattle, make, crack · To what, where: chain, me
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chain, me), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 rattle | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 rattle | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 rattle | advmod |
| 4 | rattle | rattle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rattle | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 rattle | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rattle | parataxis |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rattle | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 rattle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rattle | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your chain | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | chain | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crack | infinitive | me not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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