The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 131

‘What a pity,’ she would often say to Elsa, ‘that you have grown so big, you cannot play with me any more.’

Who acts: pity, you · What happens: pity, say, grow, not play · To what, where: Elsa · 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 (pity, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pity	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Elsa	case
12	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 play	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 grown	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 grown	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	aux
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 play	advcl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 big	advmod
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grown	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grown	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 play	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 play	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 play	advmod
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 play	obl
28	any	any	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 play	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	pity					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	would	a pity	Elsa	often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elsa=Recipient
3	grow	present · perfect	you		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not play	can	you		with me	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-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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