Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 11

Please, Uncle Remus, if you will tell me, I'll run to the house and bring you some tea-cakes."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, run, bring · To what, where: me, tea cakes, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Please	please	INTJ	_	9 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Please	punct
3	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Remus	compound
4	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Please	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Please	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tell	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 run	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 run	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 run	aux
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 run	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bring	cc
19	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 run	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 bring	obj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 cakes	det
22	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cakes	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tea	punct
24	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bring	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	run	future	I			to the house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
3	bring	present	I not said here	some tea cakes	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination cake=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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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