The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 48

“Change yourself into any shape you like,” said he, “and I will undertake to know you.

Who acts: you, tanaki · What happens: change, like, say, undertake, know · To what, where: yourself, shape, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tanaki), 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 Change	punct
2	Change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Change	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 shape	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 shape	det
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Change	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shape	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 undertake	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 undertake	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 undertake	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 undertake	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 undertake	aux
18	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 know	mark
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 undertake	xcomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change in a quote	infinitive		yourself	into any shape result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into shape=Result
2	like in a quote	present	you	any shape not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shape=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	tanaki			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	undertake in a quote	future	tanaki			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	know in a quote	to-infinitive	tanaki not said here	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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