The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 154

‘Very soon you will cease to miss them!’ in a tone that evidently meant ‘Don’t ask me any more questions.’

Who acts: you, tone · What happens: cease, miss, mean, not ask · To what, where: tone, transports, questions, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tone), 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	_	6 cease	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cease	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cease	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cease	aux
6	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 miss	mark
8	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cease	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 miss	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cease	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cease	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 tone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tone	det
14	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cease	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 meant	nsubj
16	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	17 meant	advmod
17	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tone	acl:relcl
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 ask	punct
19	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 ask	advmod
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 meant	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	any	any	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 questions	advmod
25	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ask	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cease	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cease	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	future	you			a tone	soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	miss	to-infinitive	you not said here	transports = transport				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	mean	past	a tone				evidently property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	not ask speech: ask	infinitive · do-support	a tone not said here	questions	me			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 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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