The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 35
‘Don’t waggle your head in that horrid way,’ begged Jem anxiously.
What happens: not waggle, beg · To what, where: head, Jem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. 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 | _ | 4 waggle | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 waggle | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 waggle | aux |
| 4 | waggle | waggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waggle | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 9 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waggle | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waggle | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 waggle | punct |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 13 begged | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not waggle | infinitive · do-support | your head | in that horrid way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in way=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Jem | anxiously property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient 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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