Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 55

Listen to me; that is much more important.

Who acts: you, that · What happens: listen, be · To what, where: me

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, that), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Listen	obl
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 important	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 important	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Listen	conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here		me				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	is	present	that					important property	tree rules

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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