The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 99
‘Oh, never mind that be quick and throw.’
Who acts: you, that · What happens: not mind, be, throw
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, that), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 mind | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 quick | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quick | cop |
| 8 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mind | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throw | cc |
| 10 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 mind | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | that | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | 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 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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