The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 86
Then he cried: ‘Listen to what I say, and lay it well to heart, it may be of use to you when you come to your senses.
Who acts: apparition, I, heed, you · What happens: cry, listen, say, lay, be, come · To what, where: heed, you, senses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apparition, I, heed, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Listen | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Listen | punct |
| 6 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Listen | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lay | cc |
| 13 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Listen | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lay | obj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 lay | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 heart | mark |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 use | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 use | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 use | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 use | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 use | case |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 use | nmod |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 come | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 use | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 senses | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 senses | nmod:poss |
| 31 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | apparition | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | heed | well property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | ||||
| 5 | is | may | heed | you | of use | tree rules | |||
| 6 | come | present | you | your senses | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location |
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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