The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 71
‘Do not be afraid,’ said the lady, stroking Dotterine’s head.
Who acts: lady · What happens: not be, say, stroke · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lady | det |
| 10 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stroking | punct |
| 12 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | Dotterine | Dotterine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Dotterine | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stroking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive · do-support | afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stroke | gerund | the lady not said here | Dotterine's head | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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