The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 46

"No, my dear spouse," he said at last, "speak to me rather of how I may follow you."

Who acts: King · What happens: say, speak, follow · To what, where: last, King, 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 (King), 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	_	6 spouse	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 spouse	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spouse	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spouse	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spouse	amod
6	spouse	spouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spouse	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 spouse	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 speak	obl
18	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 follow	cc
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 rather	fixed
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 follow	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 follow	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 follow	aux
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 speak	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 follow	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King			last	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive			King		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
3	follow in a quote	may	King	you			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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