The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 95

“Would you care to see which of us can run fastest?” asked the tortoise, after some talk.

Who acts: you, us, tortoise · What happens: care, see, run, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, tortoise), 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	_	4 care	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 care	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 care	nsubj
4	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 care	xcomp
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 run	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 run	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 run	aux
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
12	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 run	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 care	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tortoise	det
17	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talk	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 talk	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 talk	det
21	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	would	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	run in a quote	can	us	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory
4	ask speech: ask	past	the tortoise		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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