The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 71
‘Cease talking nonsense,’ replied the minister, ‘and give all your mind to getting us to the town before nightfall.’
Who acts: Cease, your · What happens: talk, reply, give, get, mind · To what, where: minister, mind, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cease, your), 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 Cease | punct |
| 2 | Cease | cease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 nonsense | amod |
| 4 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cease | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cease | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cease | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 minister | det |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 mind | det:predet |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mind | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 getting | mark |
| 18 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 give | advcl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 getting | iobj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 getting | obl |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 nightfall | case |
| 24 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 getting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Cease and talking nonsense | the minister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | your mind | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | gerund | us | before nightfall | to the town | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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