The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 8
‘Well, if you are resolved to free me, listen to my advice.
Who acts: you · What happens: resolve, listen · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 listen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 resolved | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 resolved | aux:pass |
| 7 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 listen | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 free | mark |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 resolved | xcomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 free | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 resolved | punct |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 advice | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 advice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 listen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | imperative | you not said here | to my advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=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 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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