The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 87

And now, if your highness will permit me, I will speak of myself.’

Who acts: highness, I · What happens: permit, speak · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (highness, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 speak	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 speak	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 permit	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 highness	nmod:poss
6	highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 permit	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 permit	aux
8	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 speak	advcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 permit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 permit	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 myself	case
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 speak	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit a condition, not said to happen	future	your highness	me					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	speak speech: other	future	I				now	of myself	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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