The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 62

'Tell me who I am,' he cried; 'there is my signet, who once sat where you sit--even yesterday!'

Who acts: I, King, signet, you · What happens: tell, be, cry, sit · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. 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, signet, you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	ccomp
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 who	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 signet	nmod:poss
16	signet	signet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 sat	nsubj
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 sat	advmod
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 signet	acl:relcl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 sit	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sit	nsubj
23	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	advcl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 yesterday	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 yesterday	advmod
26	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 signet	appos
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present	I				tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	King				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	my signet		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	past	my signet			once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	present	you				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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