Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 27
Now, you must attentively listen to her and look at the beautiful elder-tree.
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, look · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 listen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 5 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 listen | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 14 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 elder | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | must | you | name | now | attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme | ||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | at the beautiful elder tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=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: «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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