The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 41
“Father,” he replied, “only listen to me; I am quite guiltless.
Who acts: Father · What happens: reply, listen, be · To what, where: Father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 listen | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 listen | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 listen | advmod |
| 10 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 listen | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 guiltless | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 guiltless | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 guiltless | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 guiltless | advmod |
| 17 | guiltless | guiltless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Father | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Father | guiltless property | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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