The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 10

'Tell me what they are,' said Covan again, 'and I shall know better if I may overcome them.'

Who acts: Covan, I · What happens: tell, be, say, know, overcome · To what, where: me, perils · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Covan, 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	ccomp
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 are	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 know	advmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 overcome	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 overcome	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 overcome	aux
22	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overcome	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	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					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Covan			again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know	shall	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	overcome a condition, not said to happen	may	I	perils = peril			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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