The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 5

'If you would have let me speak to you before, I would have told you that I come as a friend,' replied the cat; 'and I shall be greatly obliged if you would send four of the strongest and cunningest among you, to do me a service.'

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: have, let, speak, tell, come, reply · To what, where: me, you, I, cat, four, service · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, 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	_	5 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 have	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 speak	obl
11	before	before	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj:pass
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	advcl
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 friend	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 friend	det
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 replied	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 replied	punct
26	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cat	det
28	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 replied	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 obliged	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 obliged	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 obliged	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 obliged	aux:pass
35	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	36 obliged	advmod
36	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 have	conj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 send	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 send	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 send	aux
40	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 obliged	advcl
41	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 send	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 strongest	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 strongest	det
44	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 four	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 cunningest	cc
46	cunningest	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 strongest	conj
47	among	among	ADP	_	48 you	case
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 strongest	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
50	to	to	PART	_	51 do	mark
51	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
52	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 do	iobj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 service	det
54	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 do	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	you				tree rules
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	me			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	me not said here		you	before property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
4	tell speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
5	come	present	I			as a friend	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reply speech: assert	past		the cat			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
7	oblige	shall · passive		I		greatly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	send a condition, not said to happen	would	you	four of the strongest			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme
9	do	to-infinitive		a service	me		tree rules

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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