The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 120

'Take me,' it said in a gentle whisper, 'and all will go well.'

Who acts: you, horse, all · What happens: take, say, go · To what, where: me, gentle whisper · 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 (you, horse, all), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 whisper	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 whisper	det
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whisper	amod
11	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 go	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Take	conj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	me			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	horse		a gentle whisper		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in whisper=Manner
3	go	future	all			well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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