The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48

I wish to ask you a question, and I beg you to answer truthfully.

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, ask, beg, answer · To what, where: question, you

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ask	mark
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beg	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beg	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 beg	nsubj
11	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 beg	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 answer	mark
14	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 beg	xcomp
15	truthfully	truthfully	ADV	_	14 answer	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a question	you		tree rules
3	beg speech: request	present	I		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	answer speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			truthfully property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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