The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 39

‘Don’t talk such nonsense to the child,’ said the mother at last.

Who acts: you · What happens: not talk, say · To what, where: such nonsense, mother, last · 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: who acts (you), 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 talk	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nonsense	amod
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here	such nonsense				to the child	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the mother		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=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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