The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 5

He was going on then, but the old woman stopped him and said, ‘Listen, dear hunter, to what I say.

Who acts: Hunter, old woman, I · What happens: go on, stop, say, listen · To what, where: Hunter, dear hunter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, old woman, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 going	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopped	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stopped	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stopped	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Listen	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Listen	punct
17	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hunter	punct
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hunter	amod
20	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Listen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 Listen	conj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Hunter		then	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	the old woman	Hunter		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector he=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	listen	infinitive		dear hunter		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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