The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 140

"Well, Madam," he said, "since you would have me tell you my thought, I obey you.

Who acts: Madam, you, my · What happens: say, have, tell, obey, think · To what, where: Madam, thought, you · 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 (Madam, you, my), 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	_	4 Madam	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 Madam	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Madam	Madam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Madam	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Madam	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 thought	nmod:poss
19	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 obey	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 obey	nsubj
22	obey	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 obey	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Madam			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	would	you	Madam		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Madam not said here	my thought	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thought=Topic
4	obey in a quote	present	Madam	you		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	think in a quote		my			nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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