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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 84

“On hearing these words, the prince said to his heart, “O my heart! your task will yet wear away much of your life.”

Who acts: prince, task, your · What happens: hear, say, wear away, task · To what, where: words, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, task, your), 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

punctmarkccompdetobjpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctdiscoursenmod:possappospunctnmod:possnsubjauxadvmodccompadvmodobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTOnSCONJhearingVERBtheseDETwordsNOUN,PUNCTtheDETprinceNOUNsaidVERBtoADPhisPRONheartNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTOINTJmyPRONheartNOUN!PUNCTyourPRONtaskNOUNwillAUXyetADVwearVERBawayADVmuchADJofADPyourPRONlifeNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 hearingpunct
2OnonSCONJ_3 hearingmark
3hearinghearVERBVerbForm=Ger9 saidccomp
4thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem5 wordsdet
5wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur3 hearingobj
6,,PUNCT_3 hearingpunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 princedet
8princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10totoADP_12 heartcase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 heartnmod:poss
12heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidobl
13,,PUNCT_17 heartpunct
14“"PUNCT_17 heartpunct
15OoINTJ_17 heartdiscourse
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 heartnmod:poss
17heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing12 heartappos
18!!PUNCT_17 heartpunct
19youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 tasknmod:poss
20tasktaskNOUNNumber=Sing23 wearnsubj
21willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin23 wearaux
22yetyetADV_23 wearadvmod
23wearwearVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidccomp
24awayawayADV_25 muchadvmod
25muchmuchADJDegree=Pos23 wearobj
26ofofADP_28 lifecase
27youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 lifenmod:poss
28lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing25 muchnmod
29..PUNCT_23 wearpunct
30”"PUNCT_23 wearpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hear in a quotegerundthis wordsvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2say speech: assert in a quotepastthe princeto prince's heartvn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to heart=Experiencer clause=Topic
3wear awayfutureyour taskmuch of your lifeyetvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent much=Source
4taskyournom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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