The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 89

“I want to know what it was, and know it I will,” cried she, “and I will beat you till you tell me.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: want, know, cry, beat, tell · To what, where: dream, mother, you, me · 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 (I, 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	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 know	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 was	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 want	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 will	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beat	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 beat	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 beat	aux
24	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 beat	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 tell	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 beat	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	know in a quote	present	I not said here	dream		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	past		mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	beat in a quote	future	I	you		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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