The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 8

Tell him that he can be our goose-boy if he likes.”

Who acts: you, person · What happens: tell, be, like · To what, where: person, goose boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, person), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 boy	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 boy	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 boy	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 boy	cop
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boy	nmod:poss
8	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 goose	punct
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	advcl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 likes	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 likes	nsubj
13	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		person	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	can	person	our goose boy		tree rules
3	like a condition, not said to happen	present	person			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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