The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 37

In return, I only ask one thing of you, that you shall obey my orders exactly.’

Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: ask, obey, order · To what, where: one thing, return, orders

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, my), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 return	case
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thing	nummod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 obey	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 obey	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 obey	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 obey	aux
15	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	appos
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 orders	nmod:poss
17	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 obey	obj
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 obey	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	I	one thing of you	return		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
2	obey	shall	that	my orders		exactly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	order		my				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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