The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 46

Their father answered sadly, ‘How can I bear it if, when you are far away, I know nothing about you?’ and they said, ‘The golden lilies will tell you all about us if you look at them.

Who acts: father, I, you, children, golden lilies · What happens: answer, bear, be, know, say, tell · To what, where: world, nothing, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, you, children), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 answered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
7	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bear	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 bear	nsubj
10	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bear	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 away	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 away	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 away	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 away	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 away	cop
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	10 bear	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 know	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 nothing	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
32	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lilies	det
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lilies	amod
34	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 tell	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	aux
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 you	nmod:unmarked
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 us	case
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 tell	obl
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 look	mark
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 look	nsubj
43	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	advcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 look	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	children's father			sadly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bear	can	I	world			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			away, far property	tree rules
4	know	present	I	nothing		about you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	children = child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	future	the golden lilies		you	about us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about we=Topic
7	look a condition, not said to happen	present	you			at children = child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=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 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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