The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 143

‘Come with me, and I shall ask mother to give you some bread-and-butter and a glass of milk,’ said Little Lasse.

Who acts: I, Little Lasse · What happens: come, ask, give, say · To what, where: mother, bread, you · 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 (I, Little Lasse), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ask	nsubj
8	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	xcomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 bread	det
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 butter	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 butter	cc
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bread	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 glass	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 glass	det
22	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 butter	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 milk	case
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 glass	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Lasse	amod
29	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive				with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	shall	I		mother		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some bread and butter and a glass of milk	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bread=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Little Lasse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 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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