The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 64

Be quick and tell me what you want, or it will be the worse for you.'

Who acts: you, candle · What happens: be, tell, want · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, candle), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 quick	cop
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 quick	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worse	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 worse	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worse	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 worse	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 worse	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 worse	det
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 want	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 worse	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		quick property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	is	future	candle		for you; bad property	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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