The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 12
‘Do not be in such a hurry,’ cried the horse.
Who acts: hurry · What happens: not be, cry · To what, where: hurry, horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hurry), 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 | _ | 8 hurry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hurry | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hurry | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hurry | case |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 hurry | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hurry | det |
| 8 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurry | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurry | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive · do-support | such hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | such hurry | the horse | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic |
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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