More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 31
Now ponder well, you parents dear, These words which I shall write; A doleful story you shall hear, In time brought forth to light.
Who acts: you, words, doleful story · What happens: ponder, write, hear, bring · To what, where: time, light
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, words, doleful story), 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 ponder | advmod |
| 2 | ponder | ponder | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ponder | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dear | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dear | nsubj |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ponder | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 words | punct |
| 9 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dear | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 write | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 write | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 write | aux |
| 14 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 words | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hear | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 17 | doleful | doleful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 story | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hear | aux |
| 21 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ponder | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 time | punct |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hear | obl |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 time | acl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 brought | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 light | case |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ponder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | imperative | you not said here | now | well property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | write | shall | this words | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | shall | a doleful story | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | bring | participle | time not said here | light | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to light=Destination |
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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