The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 16

‘Be quite easy, Mistress Mimi,’ comforted Jem.

What happens: be, comfort · To what, where: Jem

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. 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 easy	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easy	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 comforted	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mistress	punct
6	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 easy	conj
7	Mimi	Mimi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mistress	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 easy	punct
10	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 comforted	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						easy property	tree rules
2	comfort	past		Jem					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jem=Experiencer

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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