The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 6

You are wise and know the lore of fairies and of witches; tell me where I can find them, and what I must do to bring them to life again.'

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, know, tell, find, do, bring · To what, where: lore, me, witches, life · 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, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wise	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	cop
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 know	cc
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lore	det
7	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fairies	case
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lore	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 witches	cc
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 witches	case
12	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fairies	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wise	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 find	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 do	cc
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 bring	mark
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 do	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 life	case
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obl
32	again	again	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					wise property	tree rules
2	know	present	You not said here	the lore of fairies and witches					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lore=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	find	can	I	witches = witch					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	do	must	I						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	bring	to-infinitive	I not said here	witches = witch		life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination

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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