The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 98

Will you be kind enough to teach him?’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: son

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 teach	mark
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	you					enough, kind property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		son				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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