The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 66

‘An old man gave it to me when I was young: whoever listens to this flute goes to sleep, and nothing can wake him.

Who acts: old man, I, whoever, flute, nothing · What happens: give, be, listen, go, sleep, wake · To what, where: lid, me, man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, I, whoever, flute), 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	_	5 gave	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 young	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 young	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 young	cop
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gave	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 listens	punct
14	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 listens	nsubj
15	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	19 goes	mark
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 flute	det
18	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 goes	nsubj
19	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 listens	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sleep	mark
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 goes	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wake	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wake	cc
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 wake	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 wake	aux
26	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 listens	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wake	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	a old man	lid	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	is	past	I			young property	tree rules
3	listen	present	whoever				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	go	present	this flute				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	to-infinitive	this flute not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wake	can	nothing	man			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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