The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 56

‘But,’ said she, ‘at your age, you should attend to what old people say, and learn to have patience.’

Who acts: woman, you, old people · What happens: say, attend, learn, have · To what, where: age, patience · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (woman, you, old people), 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 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 attend	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 attend	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 age	nmod:poss
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attend	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 age	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 attend	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 attend	aux
15	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 attend	obl
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 learn	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 learn	cc
23	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 learn	xcomp
26	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	attend	should	you		at your age	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	old people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	learn	present	woman not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	to-infinitive	woman not said here	patience		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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