The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 41
Listen to him, and have patience, and in time to come you shall rejoin her whom you must now leave, for she is accepted, and will remain ever young and beautiful, as when I called her hence from the Land of Snows.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: listen, have, come, rejoin, leave, accept · To what, where: messenger, patience, body, Land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Listen | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | parataxis |
| 7 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rejoin | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rejoin | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rejoin | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 rejoin | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rejoin | aux |
| 16 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Listen | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rejoin | obj |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 leave | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 leave | aux |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 leave | advmod |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rejoin | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 accepted | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 accepted | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 accepted | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 accepted | aux:pass |
| 27 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rejoin | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remain | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 remain | cc |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 remain | aux |
| 31 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | conj |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 young | advmod |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 remain | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 beautiful | cc |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 young | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 called | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 called | mark |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 called | advmod |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 called | nsubj |
| 40 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 remain | parataxis |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 called | obj |
| 42 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 45 Land | advmod |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 Land | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Land | det |
| 45 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 called | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Snows | case |
| 47 | Snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Land | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | messenger | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | patience | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rejoin | shall | you | body | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | leave | must | you | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | accept | present · passive | body | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | remain | future | you not said here | young property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | call | past | I | body | the Land of Snows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from land=Source |
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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