The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 25
‘Oh, well! if you are really in earnest then, listen.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, listen
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 14 listen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 earnest | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 earnest | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 earnest | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 earnest | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 earnest | case |
| 11 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 14 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | earn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | imperative | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 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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