The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 106

‘I heard from my tame sweetheart that he was merry and quick-witted; he had not come to woo, he said, but to listen to the princess’s wisdom.

Who acts: I, Kay · What happens: hear, be, not come, woo, say, listen · To what, where: tame sweetheart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kay), 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	_	3 heard	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 sweetheart	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sweetheart	nmod:poss
6	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweetheart	amod
7	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 merry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 merry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 merry	cop
11	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 witted	cc
13	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witted	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 quick	punct
15	witted	witted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 merry	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 woo	mark
22	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 listen	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 listen	mark
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 wisdom	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princess	det
32	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wisdom	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 princess	case
34	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 listen	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	my tame sweetheart		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sweetheart=Source
2	is	past	Kay		merry property	tree rules
3	be		Kay not said here			tree rules
4	not come	past	Kay			tree rules
5	woo	to-infinitive	Kay not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	Kay			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	listen	to-infinitive			to the princess's wisdom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wisdom=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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