The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 97

“Listen! that is your old love playing, for mermaids know everything that happens upon earth.”

Who acts: you, that, old love, mermaids · What happens: listen, be, play, know, happen · To what, where: old love, everything, earth

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 (you, that, old love, mermaids), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 love	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 love	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 love	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 love	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 love	amod
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obl
9	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 love	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
12	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 playing	parataxis
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 know	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 happens	nsubj
16	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 everything	acl:relcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 earth	case
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happens	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	listen in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	that	your old love		tree rules
3	play in a quote	gerund	your old love not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know in a quote	present	mermaids	everything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	happen in a quote	present			earth	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location

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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