More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 107

What do you please to want?" said Mally.

Who acts: you, Mally · What happens: want, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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, Mally), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	please	please	INTJ	_	6 want	discourse
5	to	to	PART	_	6 want	mark
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Mally	Mally	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mally						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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