The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 111

Well, you have only to say to him, ‘Show me what you can do, cock,’ and something splendid will happen.”

Who acts: you, something · What happens: have, say, show, do, cock, happen · To what, where: cock, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, something), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Show	punct
11	‘	‘	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 Show	aux
12	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 say	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Show	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Show	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cock	punct
19	cock	cock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 happen	cc
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 happen	nsubj
24	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 something	amod
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 happen	aux
26	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	you		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	cock	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	show			me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	can	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	cock	infinitive	you not said here		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	happen	future	something		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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