The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 117

I wish you would tell me what the rose did to the cypress, and what the sense of the riddle is.”

Who acts: I, you, rose · What happens: wish, tell, do, be, sense · To what, where: me, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, rose), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wish	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rose	det
9	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cypress	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cypress	det
13	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 wish	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sense	det
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 is	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 riddle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 riddle	det
21	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sense	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	would	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past	the rose			to the cypress	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	is a	present					tree rules
5	sense			the riddle			nom sense «cognition 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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