Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 106
"Now lie still, and don't mind the shaking; it's only rumbling over the palace steps you'll be.
Who acts: shaking, palace, you · What happens: lie, not mind, rumble, step, be · To what, where: shaking · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shaking, palace, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lie | advmod |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 lie | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mind | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mind | cc |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 mind | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mind | advmod |
| 9 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lie | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shaking | det |
| 11 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 rumbling | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rumbling | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rumbling | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 rumbling | advmod |
| 16 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lie | advcl |
| 17 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 20 steps | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 steps | nsubj |
| 20 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rumbling | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 be | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 be | aux |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 steps | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | now; still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the shaking | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaking=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rumble in a quote | present · progressive | shaking | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | step in a quote | present | the palace | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | future | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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