Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 84

If so, you will oblige me by saying what it is.”

Who acts: you, desire · What happens: oblige, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, desire), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 so	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 oblige	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 oblige	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 oblige	aux
6	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 oblige	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 saying	mark
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 oblige	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 saying	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 what	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 oblige	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 oblige	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	oblige	future	you	me	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	desire		tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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