The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 48
“Yes, father, whatever you wish; and if that’s all you ask, I can easily keep it in mind.”
Who acts: you, all · What happens: wish, ask, keep · To what, where: father, world, mind
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, all), 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 father | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wish | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 all | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 all | mark |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 all | nsubj |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 keep | nsubj:outer |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 all | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 keep | aux |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 21 keep | advmod |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | you | father | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | can | all | world | mind | easily property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mind=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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