The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 119

“If you meant to kill me,” retorted the prince, “you would still have first to tell me what I want to know.”

Who acts: you, prince · What happens: mean, kill, retort, have, tell, want · To what, where: prince · 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 (you, prince), 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	_	10 retorted	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 meant	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 retorted	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
10	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 retorted	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 retorted	conj
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 have	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 want	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 know	mark
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 want	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 retorted	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 retorted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the prince = prince				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	retort speech: other	past	the prince					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	would	you			still	first property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the prince = prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	want in a quote	present	the prince = prince					tree rules
7	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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