The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 40

‘Listen!’ said the robber-girl to Gerda; ‘you see that all the robbers have gone; only my mother is left, and she will fall asleep in the afternoon--then I will do something for you!’

Who acts: you, robbers, Gerda, I · What happens: listen, say, see, go, leave, fall · To what, where: mother, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, robbers, Gerda, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
7	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girl	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 robber	punct
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Gerda	case
11	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 girl	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 robbers	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 robbers	det
19	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gone	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 see	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 mother	advmod
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux:pass
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fall	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fall	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fall	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fall	aux
32	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	advcl
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fall	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 afternoon	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 afternoon	det
36	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fall	obl
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 do	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fall	conj
42	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 do	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 do	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	present · perfect	all robbers				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	present · passive		my mother			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	fall	future	Gerda		afternoon	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	future	I	something	then	for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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