The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 155

‘Listen to me,’ said she; ‘you must murder him this very night.’

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: listen, say, murder · To what, where: me, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Listen	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 murder	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 murder	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 murder	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 murder	aux
13	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 murder	obj
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 night	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 night	advmod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 murder	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 murder	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 murder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	listen	infinitive			me		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	murder	must	you	man		night	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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