The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 88
‘Stay!’ cried the horse, ‘do not throw them away!
What happens: stay, cry, not throw away · To what, where: horse, women · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 throw | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 throw | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 throw | advmod |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 throw | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 throw | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not throw away | infinitive · do-support | women = woman | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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