The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 59

He told her to ‘be aisy,’ and not speak like that to him.

Who acts: Irishman · What happens: tell, be, not speak · To what, where: Princess, aisy, Irishman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	7 aisy	mark
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 aisy	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 aisy	cop
7	aisy	aisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 aisy	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 aisy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 speak	advmod
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 speak	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 speak	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Irishman		Princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		aisy			tree rules
3	not speak speech: other	infinitive	Irishman not said here		Irishman	like that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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