The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 87
“If he heeds only the words of men she will remain a flower for ever.
Who acts: bridegroom, thrush · What happens: heed, remain, word · To what, where: words, flower, men
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom, thrush), 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 | _ | 4 heeds | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 heeds | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heeds | nsubj |
| 4 | heeds | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 words | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heeds | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 words | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 remain | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 remain | aux |
| 12 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remain | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 remain | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heed in a quote | present | bridegroom | the words of men | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain in a quote | future | thrush | a flower | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flower=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | word in a quote | men | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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