The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 45

But she was very sorrowful, and said to him, ‘Why didst thou not remember my words, and listen only to what thy father said?

Who acts: Queen, thou, father, my · What happens: be, say, not remember, listen, word · To what, where: King, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, thou, father, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2098): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sorrowful	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sorrowful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorrowful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sorrowful	advmod
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sorrowful	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remember	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 remember	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 remember	advmod
14	didst	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remember	aux
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 remember	nsubj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 remember	advmod
17	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 words	nmod:poss
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remember	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 listen	cc
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 remember	conj
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 what	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 listen	obl
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Queen			sorrowful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Queen not said here		King		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	not remember	past · do-support	thou	my words			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	listen	infinitive	thou not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	thy father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	word		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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