The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 72
‘Stop,’ cried Venus from her window, ‘I have still a piece of advice to give you.
Who acts: I · What happens: stop, cry, piece, give · To what, where: Venus, window, you
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 (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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 window | nmod:poss |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piece | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 piece | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 piece | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 piece | aux |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 piece | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 advice | case |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 piece | acl:relcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Venus | Venus's window | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venus=Topic | ||||
| 3 | piece | present | I | still | of advice | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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