The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 71

But if you do, tell me, I pray, if I alone am a captive, for hitherto I have beheld no one but the monsters of the lake.'

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, tell, pray, be, behold · To what, where: me, captive, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pray	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pray	nsubj
10	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 captive	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 captive	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 captive	nsubj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 I	advmod
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 captive	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 captive	det
17	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beheld	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 hitherto	case
20	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	23 beheld	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 beheld	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 beheld	aux
23	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 tell	ccomp
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beheld	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 monsters	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 monsters	det
28	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 lake	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 monsters	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 beheld	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pray	present	I			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	I	a captive		tree rules
5	behold	present · perfect	I	no one but the monsters of the lake		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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