The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 125
‘Let them take their silliness home,’ said the empress.
Who acts: cushions · What happens: let, take, say · To what, where: cushions, silliness, empress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cushions), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 silliness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | silliness | silliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 empress | det |
| 12 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | cushions = cushion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | cushions = cushion not said here | cushions's silliness | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silliness=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the empress | 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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