The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 93
‘If Walter would listen to my advice, and boast a little less, and do a little more,’ said Jonas, consolingly.
Who acts: Walter, Jonas · What happens: listen, boast, do, say · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter, Jonas), 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 | _ | 5 listen | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 3 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 advice | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boast | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boast | cc |
| 11 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 less | obl |
| 14 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 boast | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 boast | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 more | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 consolingly | punct |
| 26 | consolingly | consolingly | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen a condition, not said to happen | would | Walter | to my advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | present | less property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | consolingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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