The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Towards Her"], sentence 87
Go, and do not fail to tell him that you want this skin."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, not fail, tell, want · To what, where: King, skin · 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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fail | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fail | cc |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fail | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fail | advmod |
| 6 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fail | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 want | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 want | nsubj |
| 12 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 skin | det |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 want | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not fail | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | this skin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=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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