The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 8

But tell us now, Whene’er you roam, Do you not find the best is home Of all the lands you’ve looked upon, Lasse, Little Lasse?

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, roam, not find, be, look upon · To what, where: us, Lasse, best home, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 roam	punct
6	Whene’er	whene'er	ADV	PronType=Int	8 roam	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 roam	nsubj
8	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 find	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 roam	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 home	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 home	amod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 home	cop
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
18	Of	of	ADP	_	21 lands	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 lands	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lands	det
21	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 home	nmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
23	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 looked	aux:pass
24	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lands	acl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 looked	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Lasse	punct
27	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Lasse	punct
29	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Lasse	amod
30	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Lasse	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		us	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	roam	present	you				whene'er property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not find	present · do-support	you	Lasse and Little Lasse				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lasse=Topic
4	is a	present		the best home			of all lands	tree rules
5	look upon	present · passive		you				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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