The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 159
‘Stop, stop,’ shouted the king; ‘you needn’t say another word; the tub is full.’
Who acts: you, tub · What happens: stop, shout, not say, be · To what, where: king, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tub), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stop | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouted | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stop | conj |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 full | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tub | det |
| 20 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 full | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 full | cop |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Stop | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | you not said here | the king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | present | you | another word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the tub | full property | tree rules |
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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