The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 58

'As you did not think yourself too good to comb me, I will show you where you may take service.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not think, comb, show, take · To what, where: yourself, me, you, service · 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, I), 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 think	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 think	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 think	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 comb	mark
11	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 good	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 comb	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 show	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 show	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 show	aux
16	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 show	iobj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 take	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 show	ccomp
22	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	you	yourself		good property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme
2	comb	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	show	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take	may	you	service			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=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 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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