The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 54

'Then stop a little while and comb my hair, and you shall tell me all the things you can do.'

Who acts: you · What happens: stop, comb, tell, do · To what, where: hair, things, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 while	amod
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 comb	cc
8	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hair	nmod:poss
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comb	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 things	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 things	det
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 things	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	stop	present				then; while	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	comb	infinitive		my hair			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	shall	you	all things	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Topic
4	do	can	you	all things not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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