The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 88
“Listen to me; though I don’t know anything more about you, I am willing to help you.
Who acts: you, son · What happens: listen, not know, be, help · To what, where: son, anything, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 know | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Listen | conj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 know | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 anything | amod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 more | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 willing | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 willing | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 willing | cop |
| 18 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Listen | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 willing | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the gardener's son = son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the gardener's son = son | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the gardener's son = son | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | the gardener's son = son not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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