The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 63

“I know your name now,” he said, “and as you have ruined me, and I am not rich any more, will you take me as your servant?”

Who acts: Carrier, you, your · What happens: know, say, ruin, not be, take, name · To what, where: name, Carrier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carrier, you, 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 know	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 ruined	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ruined	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 ruined	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 ruined	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ruined	aux
17	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ruined	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rich	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rich	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 rich	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 rich	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 rich	advmod
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ruined	conj
25	any	any	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 rich	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 take	nsubj
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 take	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 servant	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 servant	nmod:poss
34	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Carrier	your name	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	say speech: ask	past	Carrier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ruin in a quote	present · perfect	you	Carrier			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	not is in a quote	present	Carrier			rich property	tree rules
5	take in a quote	future	you	Carrier		as your servant	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as servant=Attribute
6	name in a quote		your				nom name «communication 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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