The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 80

More I cannot tell you, but I beg you earnestly to take heed to this.'

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, beg, take · To what, where: you, heed, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tell	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beg	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 beg	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 beg	nsubj
10	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 beg	obj
12	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	10 beg	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 beg	advcl
15	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 take	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	present	I		you		earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	heed		this		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to this=Destination

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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