The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 19

Really you talk nonsense when you say things like that!’

Who acts: you · What happens: talk, say · To what, where: nonsense, things · 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), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	3 talk	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 talk	nsubj
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talk	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	advcl
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 things	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	you	nonsense					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	you	things				like that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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