The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 99

But Martin’s mother answered boldly: ‘If the King will only listen patiently to me, and give me a straightforward answer, he will see that I am not out of my mind.

Who acts: mother, King, I · What happens: answer, listen, give, see, not be · To what, where: me, straightforward answer, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, King, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
2	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Martin	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 answered	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 listen	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	14 listen	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 listen	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 listen	advmod
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
15	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	17 me	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 listen	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 listen	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 answer	det
23	straightforward	straightforward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 answer	amod
24	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 listen	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 mind	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 mind	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 mind	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 mind	advmod
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 mind	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	33 out	fixed
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mind	nmod:poss
36	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Martin's mother				boldly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen a condition, not said to happen	future	the King		me			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
3	give	infinitive	the King not said here	a straightforward answer	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Theme
4	see	future	King					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is	present	I			my mind		tree rules

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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