The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 101

Always listen to what it says, and take heed to the words of your mother and brothers, as well as you are able!'

Who acts: you, sense · What happens: listen, say, take, be, word · To what, where: heed, words, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sense), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 listen	advmod
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 says	mark
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 says	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	conj
10	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 words	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 words	det
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 words	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brothers	cc
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mother	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 able	punct
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	25 able	cc
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed
22	as	as	ADP	_	20 as	fixed
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 able	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 take	advcl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here			always property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	sense				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	take	infinitive	you not said here	heed	the words of your mother and brothers		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to word=Destination
4	is	present	you			able property	tree rules
5	word			your mother and brothers			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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