The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 121
‘Don’t worry yourself about it any more,’ said the kind Fairy; ‘lie down and go to sleep, and I’ll see that your work is done all right.’
Who acts: you, kind Fairy, I, your · What happens: not worry, say, lie down, go, see, do · To what, where: yourself, sleep, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, kind Fairy, I, 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 | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 worry | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worry | obl |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 worry | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fairy | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Fairy | amod |
| 15 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lie | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 lie | punct |
| 18 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 lie | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 go | cc |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 lie | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lie | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 done | mark |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 work | nmod:poss |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 done | aux:pass |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | ccomp |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 right | advmod |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 done | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not worry | imperative · do-support | you not said here | yourself | about task | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the kind Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | present · passive | your work | right property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | work | your | nom work «act intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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