More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 53

Now listen till I tell you a story, and then catch up with Gobborn Seer and begin it at once.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: listen, tell, catch up, begin · To what, where: story, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 listen	advmod
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 catch	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 catch	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 catch	advmod
12	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 catch	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 Seer	case
15	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Seer	compound
16	Seer	seer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begin	cc
18	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begin	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 begin	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here			now		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	a story	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
3	catch up	infinitive	you not said here			then	with Gobborn Seer	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	begin	present	you not said here	story				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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