The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 182

I, who am sovereign lord of this world, promise to grant in full the first three wishes which it will please thee to utter, whatever these may be.

Who acts: I, first three wishes · What happens: be, promise, grant, please, utter · To what, where: sovereign lord, thee

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first three wishes), 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	6 lord	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lord	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lord	cop
5	sovereign	sovereign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lord	amod
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lord	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
11	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 lord	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 grant	mark
13	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 full	case
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grant	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wishes	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 wishes	amod
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 wishes	nummod
19	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 be	nsubj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 please	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 please	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 please	aux
23	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wishes	acl:relcl
24	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 please	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 utter	mark
26	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 please	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 whatever	punct
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wishes	acl:relcl
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 whatever	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 full	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lord	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	sovereign lord	of this world	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grant not said to happen	to-infinitive			full property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	please	future	the first three wishes	thee		tree rules
5	utter speech: other	to-infinitive	the first three wishes not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	be	may	the first three wishes			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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