The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 112

‘It was lucky indeed,’ answered the queen; ‘but tell me, where is thy soul, that I may take care of it?’

Who acts: soul, I · What happens: be, answer, tell, take · To what, where: queen, me, soul, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, 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	_	4 lucky	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lucky	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	cop
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 lucky	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lucky	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 soul	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 soul	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 soul	cop
19	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 soul	nmod:poss
20	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 take	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	conj
26	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	soul			indeed, lucky property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the queen		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	present		thy soul			tree rules
5	take	may	I	care		of soul	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Initial_Location

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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