The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 12
“Do not be afraid,” said the Wonderful Sheep; “I entreat you to have patience, and listen to the story of my misfortunes.
Who acts: you, Wonderful Sheep, Miranda · What happens: not be, say, entreat, have, listen · To what, where: you, patience · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Wonderful Sheep, Miranda), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sheep | det |
| 10 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Sheep | amod |
| 11 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 entreat | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 entreat | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 entreat | nsubj |
| 15 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 entreat | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 entreat | xcomp |
| 19 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 listen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 listen | cc |
| 22 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 entreat | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 story | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 listen | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 misfortunes | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 story | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wonderful Sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | entreat in a quote | infinitive | Miranda | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | Miranda not said here | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | ||||
| 5 | listen in a quote | infinitive | Miranda not said here | to the story of my misfortunes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=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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