The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

‘What you have already told me,’ answered the king, ‘is so strange that I cannot imagine what more there is to tell, but go on with your story.’

Who acts: ‘, I · What happens: tell, answer, be, not imagine, go on · To what, where: you, me, king · 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 (‘, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 told	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answered	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strange	punct
14	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strange	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 strange	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 strange	advmod
17	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answered	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 imagine	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 imagine	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 imagine	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 imagine	advmod
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 strange	advcl
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 imagine	obj
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 is	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 is	expl
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 tell	mark
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 is	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 go	compound:prt
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 story	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 story	nmod:poss
35	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		you	me			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the king			tree rules
3	is	present	‘				strange property	tree rules
4	not imagine	can	I					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
5	be	present				there		tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	go on	infinitive					with your story	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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