The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 65

'Madam,' answered the child, 'I believe that you alone know the way to the castle of Come- and-never-go, and I pray you to show it to me.'

Who acts: Madam, I, you, castle · What happens: answer, believe, know, come, not go, pray · To what, where: child, way, you, 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 (Madam, I, you, castle), 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 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 believe	nsubj
11	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 castle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 Come	mark
22	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 castle	acl
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 go	advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 never	punct
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Come	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pray	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pray	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 pray	nsubj
32	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 pray	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 show	mark
35	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 pray	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 show	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 show	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Madam		the child		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality
2	believe	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	know	present	you	the way		to the castle; alone property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	come	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not go	infinitive	the castle not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
7	show	to-infinitive	I not said here	way	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient

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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