The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 77

“Always; whatever you command I will do it,” said Pivi, politely.

Who acts: you, Pivi · What happens: command, do, say · To what, where: whatever, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pivi), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 command	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Always	punct
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 command	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 command	nsubj
6	command	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 command	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 command	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 command	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 politely	punct
16	politely	politely	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	command in a quote	present	you	whatever	always property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	future	Pivi	door		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Pivi		politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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