The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 139
But, my dear child, save mine and that of the King your father by telling me what you desire, and be assured that you shall have it."
Who acts: dear child, you · What happens: save, tell, desire, assure, have · To what, where: mine, me, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Towards Her"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 save | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 save | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 King | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 King | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mine | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 telling | mark |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 save | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 telling | iobj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 desire | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 desire | nsubj |
| 21 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 telling | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 assured | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 assured | cc |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 assured | aux:pass |
| 25 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 save | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 assured | ccomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | infinitive | my dear child | mine | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent my=Beneficiary father=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | my dear child not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | desire | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | assure | infinitive · passive | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have | shall | you | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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