The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 25
‘Stay, I have a warning to give you,’ said she.
Who acts: I, goddess · What happens: stay, have, give, say · To what, where: warning, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, goddess), 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 | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 warning | det |
| 7 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 warning | acl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | 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 | have | present | I | a warning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | a warning not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | goddess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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