The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 11

‘Well, prince,’ said she, ‘as you say you would wish to oblige me, you can do it by not tasting any drink to-night.’

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: say, wish, oblige, do, not taste · To what, where: me, voice, drink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 prince	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 prince	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prince	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 prince	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 say	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 do	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 wish	aux
16	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 oblige	mark
18	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 oblige	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 do	obj
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 tasting	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 tasting	advmod
27	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 do	advcl
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 drink	det
29	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tasting	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 night	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tasting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	would	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	oblige not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	do	can	you	voice		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	not taste	gerund	you not said here	any drink	night	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme drink=Attribute

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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