The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 11

‘“Will you not come and tell him so yourself?” asked the hare.

Who acts: you, hare · What happens: not come, tell, ask · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hare), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
3	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	so	so	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 tell	iobj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hare	det
16	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	not come in a quote	future	you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	yourself	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient yourself=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	the hare		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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