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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

“O most delicious person!” he answered, “you are very generous, and the choice of my life lies in truth in your hands; but I beg one favour of you.

Who acts: person, you, choice · What happens: answer, be, lie, beg, favour · To what, where: truth, one favour, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, you, choice), 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

punctcaseamodamodoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodconjpunctccdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodadvclcaseoblcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjconjnummodobjcasenmodpunctroot“PUNCTOADPmostADJdeliciousADJpersonNOUN!PUNCT”PUNCThePRONansweredVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTyouPRONareAUXveryADVgenerousADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETchoiceNOUNofADPmyPRONlifeNOUNliesVERBinADPtruthNOUNinADPyourPRONhandsNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONbegVERBoneNUMfavourNOUNofADPyouPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_9 answeredpunct
2OofADPAbbr=Yes5 personcase
3mostmostADJDegree=Sup5 personamod
4deliciousdeliciousADJDegree=Pos5 personamod
5personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing9 answeredobl
6!!PUNCT_5 personpunct
7”"PUNCT_5 personpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 answerednsubj
9answeredanswerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10,,PUNCT_15 generouspunct
11“"PUNCT_15 generouspunct
12youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs15 generousnsubj
13arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 generouscop
14veryveryADV_15 generousadvmod
15generousgenerousADJDegree=Pos9 answeredconj
16,,PUNCT_23 liespunct
17andandCCONJ_23 liescc
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 choicedet
19choicechoiceNOUNNumber=Sing23 liesnsubj
20ofofADP_22 lifecase
21mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 lifenmod:poss
22lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing19 choicenmod
23lieslieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 generousadvcl
24ininADP_25 truthcase
25truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing23 liesobl
26ininADP_28 handscase
27youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 handsnmod:poss
28handshandNOUNNumber=Plur23 liesobl
29;;PUNCT_32 begpunct
30butbutCCONJ_32 begcc
31IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 begnsubj
32begbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 answeredconj
33oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card34 favournummod
34favourfavourNOUNNumber=Sing32 begobj
35ofofADP_36 youcase
36youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs34 favournmod
37..PUNCT_9 answeredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1answer speech: assertpastpersonof most delicious personvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is in a quotepresentyougenerous propertytree rules
3lie in a quotepresentthe choice of my lifetruthin your handsvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in truth=Location
4beg speech: request in a quotepresentpersonone favour of youvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient
5favour in a quoteyounom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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