The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 43

Shall I go to the king instead of you, and tell him of your sufferings, and that he has the most charming baby in the world for his daughter?

Who acts: I, king, your · What happens: go, tell, have, charm, suffer · To what, where: king, charming baby, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, your), 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	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 you	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sufferings	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sufferings	nmod:poss
16	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 has	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 baby	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 charming	advmod
24	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 baby	amod
25	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 baby	nmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 daughter	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	shall	I				to the king; instead you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		king		of your sufferings	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	have	present	king	the charming baby		the world	for king's daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
4	charm	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	suffer		your					nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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