The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 2

The story I am going to tell you happened many years ago, but it is worth while for you to listen to it, before it is forgotten.

Who acts: story, you, it · What happens: go, tell, happen, be, listen, forget · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, you, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 happened	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 worth	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 worth	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 worth	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 worth	cop
17	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	parataxis
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 listen	mark
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 listen	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 listen	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 listen	mark
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 worth	csubj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 listen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 forgotten	punct
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 forgotten	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 forgotten	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 forgotten	aux:pass
29	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 listen	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	the story				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the story not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past	you			ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	it			worth property	tree rules
5	listen	to-infinitive	you		story		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
6	forget	present · passive		story			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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