The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 12

Do not be shy, but tell me how you found your way, and what you want.’

Who acts: you · What happens: do, not be, tell, find, want · To what, where: me, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. 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	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 shy	advmod
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shy	cop
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shy	parataxis
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 found	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	infinitive				shy property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	find	past	you	your way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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