The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 61

Now you shall say it instead of me, for a treat.”

Who acts: you · What happens: say · To what, where: duty · 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), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 say	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 me	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 treat	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 treat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 treat	det
12	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	shall	you	duty			now	instead me; for a treat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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