The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 100
Hold your tongue, and leave me in peace.’
Who acts: you · What happens: hold, leave · To what, where: tongue, me, peace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 leave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leave | cc |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 peace | case |
| 9 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | your tongue | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | me | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location |
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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