The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 139
‘Ah, be quiet, child,’ replied the lady; ‘you do not know what I would do to make you happy.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, reply, not know, do, make · To what, where: lady, you · 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 (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 | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 quiet | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 know | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 know | advmod |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 do | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 do | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | would | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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