The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 67
“Only listen,” she said, holding the acorn to his ear.
Who acts: bidding · What happens: listen, say, hold · To what, where: acorn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bidding), 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 | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 listen | advmod |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 holding | punct |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 acorn | det |
| 11 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ear | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bidding | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | bidding not said here | the acorn | to king's ear | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme |
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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