The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 34

So grieved though I am to say farewell, I will obey you yet once more, and will listen to your brother as I would to yourself.

Who acts: I · What happens: grieve, say, obey, listen · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 grieved	advmod
2	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	advcl
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 say	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obey	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 obey	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 obey	aux
12	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 obey	obj
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 obey	advmod
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 obey	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 listen	cc
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 listen	aux
20	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 brother	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brother	nmod:poss
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 listen	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 would	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 would	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 listen	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 yourself	case
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 would	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	participle	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	obey	future	I	you	yet		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	listen	future				to your brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to brother=Theme

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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