The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 96
“Listen! listen! said the mermaid to the prince, who was lying stretched on a bed of seaweeds at the bottom of the sea.
Who acts: prince · What happens: listen, say, lie, stretch · To what, where: mermaid, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Listen | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mermaid | det |
| 8 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lying | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lying | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lying | aux |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 prince | conj |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lying | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bed | det |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 seaweeds | case |
| 21 | seaweeds | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bed | nmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 bottom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bottom | det |
| 24 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bottom | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express in a quote | past | the mermaid | to the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | past · progressive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stretch in a quote | participle | the prince not said here | a bed of seaweeds | at the bottom of the sea | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 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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