The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 67

One day the old man seemed sadder and more thoughtful than was common with him, and at last he said to his wife: “Listen to me, old woman!”

Who acts: old man, child · What happens: seem, be, say, listen · To what, where: wife, last, old woman, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, child), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sadder	sad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 seemed	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thoughtful	cc
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 thoughtful	advmod
10	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sadder	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 common	case
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 common	cop
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thoughtful	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 common	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Listen	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Listen	punct
27	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Listen	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 woman	punct
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Listen	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Listen	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the old man				day	sad property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past						with child; common property	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	child		child's wife	last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic
4	listen in a quote	infinitive		old woman	child				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=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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