The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 88

‘Don’t talk so load, or you’ll wake her,’ said the old toad.

Who acts: you · What happens: not talk, wake, say · To what, where: girl, old toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). 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	_	4 talk	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 load	case
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wake	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 wake	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 wake	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wake	aux
11	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talk	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wake	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wake	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 toad	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 toad	amod
18	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not talk	infinitive · do-support			so load	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake	future	you	girl		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past		the old toad		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 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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