The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 66

“See, I will lay myself down in this coffin, and will then tell you why I laughed, for as soon as I have told you I shall surely die.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, lay down, tell, laugh, die · To what, where: myself, coffin, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	aux
6	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 See	conj
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 lay	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 lay	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 coffin	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 coffin	det
11	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 See	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 laughed	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 laughed	nsubj
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughed	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 as	case
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 soon	advmod
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 told	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 told	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 tell	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 die	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 die	aux
32	surely	surely	ADV	_	33 die	advmod
33	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lay down in a quote	future	I	myself		this coffin			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in coffin=Destination
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	you not said here		you		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	laugh in a quote	past	I						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect	I		you			soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	die in a quote	shall	I					surely property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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