The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 76
‘Be quiet, you little toad,’ he cried, ‘or I’ll shoot you dead.’
Who acts: stag, I · What happens: be, cry, shoot · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, I), 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 | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 toad | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 toad | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 toad | nsubj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 toad | amod |
| 7 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 toad | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 toad | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 toad | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 11 cried | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 shoot | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 shoot | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 shoot | aux |
| 17 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 shoot | obj |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoot | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 toad | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 toad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | stag | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shoot | future | I | you | dead property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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