The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 83
‘Well,’ said she, ‘I will do my best to release thee if thou wilt do as I tell thee.
Who acts: door, I, thou · What happens: say, do, release, tell · To what, where: best, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, I, thou), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 best | nmod:poss |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 release | mark |
| 15 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | advcl |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 release | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 release | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | parataxis |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | door | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | future | I | my best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | release | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer thou=Source | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | I | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
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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