The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 41

‘Listen, good man,’ said the wife, ‘you must just be the watchdog yourself, and scare the fellows away from the house.’

Who acts: yourself, you · What happens: listen, say, be, scare · To what, where: good man, wife, watchdog, fellows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yourself, 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watchdog	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 watchdog	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 watchdog	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 watchdog	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 watchdog	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 watchdog	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 watchdog	det
18	watchdog	watchdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	conj
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 scare	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 scare	cc
22	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fellows	det
24	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 scare	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	22 scare	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 away	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 scare	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 scare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	infinitive		good man		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	yourself	the wife and the watchdog		tree rules
3	is a	must	you	the watchdog		tree rules
4	scare	infinitive		the fellows	away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fellow=Experiencer

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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