Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 26

"Listen to me, and not to them," said the mother stork. "

Who acts: you, mother stork · What happens: listen, say · To what, where: mother stork · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother stork), 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Listen	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 them	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 them	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 them	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Listen	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stork	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stork	compound
15	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	imperative	you not said here		the mother stork = stork				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother stork						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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