The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 9

But, listen! whoever overhears and tells what we have said will be turned to stone up to his knees.”

Who acts: you, whoever, we · What happens: listen, overhear, tell, say, turn up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whoever, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 listen	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
3	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
5	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 overhears	nsubj
6	overhears	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	parataxis
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tells	cc
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 overhears	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 turned	obj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 turned	advcl
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 turned	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 turned	aux:pass
15	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tells	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 stone	case
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turned	obl
18	up	up	ADP	_	15 turned	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 knees	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knees	nmod:poss
21	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	overhear	present	whoever		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	present	whoever not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present · perfect	we		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	turn up	future · passive		to stone; to midday's knees	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: what=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: «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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