More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 56

I make bold, Sir, to come and wait on you about it; for I thought you would like to hear the news.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: make, come, wait, think, like, hear · To what, where: bold, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bold	bold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Sir	punct
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bold	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wait	cc
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 wait	obl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 thought	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 make	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 like	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 news	det
25	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hear	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	I	bold		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bold=Product
2	come	to-infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	infinitive			on you; about bold	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on you=Location
4	think speech: other	past	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	like	would	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the news		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus

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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