The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 127
But you have been strong and faithful, and you can do this thing if you listen to what I tell you!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, do, listen, tell · To what, where: thing, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 strong | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 strong | cop |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 faithful | cc |
| 7 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strong | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 strong | parataxis |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 listen | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 listen | nsubj |
| 17 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 listen | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | you | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | can | you | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | listen a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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