The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 147

‘Dear me! don’t you understand that I am going to take the whole forest back with me?’ said Stan, tying two other trees as he spoke.

Who acts: you, I, Stan · What happens: not understand, go, take, say, tie, speak · To what, where: whole forest, two other trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Stan), 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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 understand	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 understand	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 understand	nsubj
8	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dear	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 going	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 understand	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 take	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tying	punct
26	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 said	advcl
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 trees	nummod
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tying	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 spoke	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoke	nsubj
32	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tying	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	the whole forest	with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Stan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	tie	gerund	Stan not said here	two other trees		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
6	speak speech: other	past	Stan			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 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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