The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 19

“There must be some thing you could take, if you would only say what it is,” implored his wife.

Who acts: you, thing · What happens: be, take, say, implore · To what, where: thing, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thing), 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	_	6 thing	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 implored	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 say	advmod
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	conj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 what	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
21	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 implored	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		some thing		tree rules
2	take in a quote	could	you	some thing not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	thing			tree rules
5	implore	past	some thing		husband's wife	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient

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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