The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 16

Only tell me that you wish it, and I will give up for ever all thought of being king, and will stay here with you always.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, wish, give up, be, stay · To what, where: me, kindness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wish	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 give	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 thought	case
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 thought	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 thought	det
17	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 king	cop
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stay	cc
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stay	aux
24	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stay	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 stay	obl
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 stay	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wish	present	you	kindness				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	give up	future	I				for all thought	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund					of king	tree rules
5	stay	future	you not said here			here	with you; always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=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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