The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 21

Now I must tell you who I am, and what befell to cause me to take the shape of an old woman.

Who acts: I, me · What happens: tell, be, befall, cause, take · To what, where: you, me, shape · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 who	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 befell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 befell	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 befell	nsubj
12	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cause	mark
14	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 befell	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cause	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 take	mark
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cause	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shape	det
19	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 woman	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shape	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	I		you	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present	I				tree rules
3	befall	past					tree rules
4	cause	to-infinitive		me			tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	me not said here	the shape of a old woman			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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