The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 94

“Tell me who you are and what your history has been.”

Who acts: you, history · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, history), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 who	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 been	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 been	obj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 history	nmod:poss
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 been	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 been	aux
12	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	you		tree rules
3	be in a quote	present · perfect	your history		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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: «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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