The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 71

This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers.

Who acts: This, I · What happens: show, not listen · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shows	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 shows	advmod
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shows	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sensible	advmod
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shows	xcomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 listening	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 listening	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 listening	aux
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 listening	mark
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 listening	advmod
12	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sensible	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 flatterers	case
14	flatterers	flatterer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 listening	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	This		me			sensible property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	not listen	present · perfect · progressive	I					to flatterers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to flatterer=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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