The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 25
‘Listen then, my daughters, and learn the reason of my sorrow.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: listen, learn, sorrow · To what, where: daughters, reason
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Listen | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughters | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Listen | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learn | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 learn | cc |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Listen | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reason | det |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learn | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sorrow | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reason | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | my daughters | then | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | you not said here | the reason of my sorrow | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sorrow | my | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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