The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 55

“Tell me who you are?” he asked, when he had recovered himself a little, “for I will never believe that you have not royal blood in your veins.”

Who acts: you, king, people · What happens: tell, be, ask, recover, not believe, have · To what, where: me, king, royal blood, veins · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, people), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Tell	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 who	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 who	cop
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recovered	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 recovered	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 recovered	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 recovered	aux
15	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	ccomp
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 recovered	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 recovered	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 believe	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 believe	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 believe	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 believe	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 believe	aux
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 believe	advmod
25	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 believe	ccomp
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 royal	advmod
30	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 blood	amod
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 veins	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 veins	nmod:poss
34	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	you					tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	king					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	recover	past · perfect	king	king			a little obl:unmarked	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	not believe in a quote	future	king's people = people					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have in a quote	present	you	royal blood		your veins		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

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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