The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 128

‘Then tell me at what price thou wilt loose it, and I will give it.’

Who acts: you, price, I · What happens: tell, lose, give · To what, where: me, pound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, price, 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 what	case
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 tell	obl
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loose	nsubj
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 loose	nsubj
9	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	10 loose	aux
10	loose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 what	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loose	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 give	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	lose	future	price	pound			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	give	future	I	pound			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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