The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 72
And now,’ she went on, ‘attend carefully to what I am going to say.
Who acts: Lebanon · What happens: go on, attend, go, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lebanon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 attend | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 attend | punct |
| 10 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | conj |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 attend | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 going | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 attend | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Lebanon | now | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attend | infinitive | Lebanon not said here | carefully property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | 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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