The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 26
‘Be quiet,’ said she; then turning to Elsa she added: ‘I am so glad you did not run away with the other children.
Who acts: lightning, I, you · What happens: be, say, turn, add, not run away · 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 (lightning, I, 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 | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 turning | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turning | advmod |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Elsa | case |
| 12 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turning | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 added | nsubj |
| 14 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turning | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 glad | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 glad | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 glad | advmod |
| 20 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 run | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 run | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 run | advmod |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 glad | parataxis |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 run | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 children | amod |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 run | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | lightning not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | lightning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | lightning not said here | Elsa | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to elsa=Result | |||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | lightning | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not run away | past · do-support | you | with the other children; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with child=Material |
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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