The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 80

“I will tell you,” answered the prince, “if you will divide yourself so that I may walk through.”

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: tell, answer, divide, walk through · To what, where: you, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 divide	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 divide	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 divide	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 divide	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 divide	aux
16	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 divide	obj
18	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 walk	mark
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 so	fixed
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 walk	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 walk	aux
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 divide	advcl
23	through	through	ADV	_	22 walk	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the prince = prince		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	the prince				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	divide a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	yourself			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
4	walk through in a quote	may	the prince = prince			through property	vn rehearse-26.8 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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