The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 2

Sit down and warm yourself, and tell me how fares the outer world.

Who acts: you · What happens: sit down, warm, tell, fare · To what, where: yourself, me, outer world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 warm	cc
4	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 warm	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Sit	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fares	advmod
11	fares	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fares	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	warm	infinitive	you not said here	yourself		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	fare	present	you not said here	the outer world		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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