The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 86
“Listen to me,” he said, “whenever you want money, you only have to say: ‘Show me what you can do, cock,’ and you will see some wonderful things.
Who acts: Father, you · What happens: listen, say, want, have, show, do · To what, where: Father, money, wonderful things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, you), 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 | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 “ | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 want | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | advcl |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 “ | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Show | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Show | punct |
| 23 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 say | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Show | iobj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 do | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Show | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cock | punct |
| 30 | cock | cock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 Show | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cock | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 cock | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 see | cc |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 see | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 see | aux |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Show | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 things | det |
| 38 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 things | amod |
| 39 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 see | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | you | money | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | show in a quote | infinitive | Father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | cock in a quote | infinitive | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | see in a quote | future | you | some wonderful things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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