The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 10

‘No,’ said the little one, ‘you must remain at your post, but I shall give you a piece of good advice; you shall go up into the pulpit, and remain standing there.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, remain, give, go up, stand · To what, where: little one, post, piece, you, pulpit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remain	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 remain	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 remain	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remain	aux
13	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 post	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 post	nmod:poss
16	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remain	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 remain	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 advice	case
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 advice	amod
27	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 pulpit	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pulpit	det
35	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 remain	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 remain	cc
38	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 go	conj
39	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 remain	xcomp
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 standing	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the little one			tree rules
2	remain	must	you			your post	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location
3	give	shall	I	a piece of good advice	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme
4	go up	shall	you			the pulpit	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	remain	present	you not said here				tree rules
6	stand	gerund	you not said here			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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