The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 9

Go, and ask me of my father, and whatsoever he shall required of thee grant it, and thou shalt win me; but if thou deny him anything thou wilt not obtain me, and it will be well for thee if thou escape with thy life.’

Who acts: you, life, thee, thou, word · What happens: go, ask, require, grant, win, deny · To what, where: me, word, life

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, life, thee, 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 required	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 required	cc
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	14 required	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 required	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 required	aux
14	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Go	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 grant	mark
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 grant	nsubj
17	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 required	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grant	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 win	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 win	cc
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 win	nsubj
22	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	23 win	aux
23	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grant	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 win	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 obtain	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 obtain	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 deny	mark
28	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 deny	nsubj
29	deny	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 obtain	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 deny	obj
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 deny	obj
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 obtain	nsubj
33	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	35 obtain	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 obtain	advmod
35	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 obtain	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 be	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 be	cc
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 be	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 be	aux
41	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 be	advmod
43	for	for	ADP	_	44 thee	case
44	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 be	obl
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 escape	mark
46	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	47 escape	nsubj
47	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 life	case
49	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	50 life	nmod:poss
50	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 escape	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		me	of my father	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	require	shall	life			whatsoever property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	grant	present	thee	word			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	win	shall	thou	me			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
6	deny a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	life			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme anything=Eventuality
7	not obtain	future	thou	me			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Theme
8	be	future	word			for thee; well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	escape a condition, not said to happen	present	thou			with thy life	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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