The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 21

Then she will tell you that she would like to ride a little way, and you must help her to mount.

Who acts: princess, you · What happens: tell, like, ride, help, mount · To what, where: you, little way, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 like	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 like	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 like	aux
9	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ride	mark
11	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 like	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ride	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 help	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 mount	mark
22	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	princess		you	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like	would	princess				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	ride not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	a little way			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
4	help	must	you	princess			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	mount	to-infinitive	princess not said here				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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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