The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 102
‘You must not be frightened,’ said the lady, when she noticed her terror; ‘this clay figure can do you no harm.
Who acts: lady, clay figure · What happens: not frighten, say, notice, do · To what, where: You, terror, harm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, clay figure), 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 | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticed | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 noticed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lady | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 terror | nmod:poss |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 figure | det |
| 21 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 figure | compound |
| 22 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | iobj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 harm | det |
| 27 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten | must · passive | You | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | notice | past | lady | lady's terror | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer terror=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | can | this clay figure | no harm | you | 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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