The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 42
Only sit still and don’t stir.
Who acts: you · What happens: sit, not stir
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 sit | advmod |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 sit | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stir | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stir | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stir | advmod |
| 7 | stir | stir | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not stir | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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