The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 89

‘Do not cry so, dear child,’ said the godmother.

What happens: not cry, say · To what, where: godmother · 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: 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 cry	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 child	punct
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cry	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 godmother	det
13	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	infinitive · do-support							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the godmother					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 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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