The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 79

Tell me that I may seek a cure.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, seek · To what, where: me, cure · 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 (you, I), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 seek	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seek	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 seek	aux
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cure	det
8	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seek	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	seek	may	I	a cure					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Theme

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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