The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 41
So she talked, as mothers will, to anyone that would listen to her.
Who acts: mother · What happens: talk, listen · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 talked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 will | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 will | mark |
| 6 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 will | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 anyone | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 anyone | case |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 talked | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 listen | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 listen | aux |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 listen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | mother | to anyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | would | mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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