The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 100
‘Stop a moment; be careful, my lord,’ put in the horse, ‘and be sure you do what I tell you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stop, be, put, do, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. 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), 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 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 careful | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 careful | cop |
| 7 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Stop | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lord | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 careful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Stop | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ‘ | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sure | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sure | cop |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 put | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | you not said here | my lord obl; careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | you not said here | in the horse and ‘ | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in horse=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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