The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 45

“‘Now,’ they said, ‘if you will get us the cure for our blindness we will devote ourselves to your service, and will do whatever you wish.’

Who acts: schemes, you, we, your · What happens: say, get, devote, do, wish, service · To what, where: cure, us, ourselves, service, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (schemes, you, we, your), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Now	punct
3	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Now	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Now	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cure	det
16	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 blindness	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 blindness	nmod:poss
19	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cure	nmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 devote	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 devote	aux
22	devote	devote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 get	parataxis
23	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 devote	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 service	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 service	nmod:poss
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 devote	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
31	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 wish	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 wish	nsubj
33	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 do	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	schemes = scheme			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	the cure	us		for our blindness	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary cure=Theme
3	devote in a quote	future	we	ourselves			to your service goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme to service=Goal
4	do in a quote	future						tree rules
5	wish in a quote	present	you	whatever				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
6	service in a quote		your					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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