The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 95

Listen to me; get yourself a set of pipes, and learn to play on them as well as you do on your flute, and wherever there are men to hear you, I promise you will never lack money.”

Who acts: you, men, I · What happens: listen, get, learn, play, do, be · To what, where: me, yourself, flute, you, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, men, 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Listen	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	conj
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 get	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 set	det
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 pipes	case
10	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 learn	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 learn	cc
13	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 learn	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 play	obl
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	15 play	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 play	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 flute	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 flute	nmod:poss
25	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 promise	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 promise	cc
28	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	30 are	advmod
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 are	expl
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 promise	advcl
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 are	nsubj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 hear	mark
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 men	acl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hear	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 are	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 promise	nsubj
37	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 lack	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 lack	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 lack	advmod
41	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 promise	ccomp
42	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lack	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here		me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	get	infinitive	you not said here	yourself				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary set=Theme
3	learn	infinitive	you not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	play	to-infinitive	you not said here				on pipes = pipe	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	present	you			your flute		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	does	present	men			there	wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	to-infinitive	men not said here	you				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
8	promise speech: promise	present	I					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	not lack	future	you	money				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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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