The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 96
“Never mind that,” said the steward; “you are very welcome if you will only tell me the story of your life.”
Who acts: you, steward · What happens: not mind, say, be, tell · To what, where: that, story, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, steward), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steward | det |
| 9 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 welcome | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 welcome | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 welcome | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 welcome | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 welcome | advmod |
| 15 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 tell | advmod |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 welcome | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 story | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the story of your life | the old man = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |
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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