The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 76

‘Will you gather the fruit yourself, Queen?’ said the old fairy, ‘or shall I call it to come to you?’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: gather, say, call, come · To what, where: fruit, old fairy, ‘, you · 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 gather	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gather	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gather	nsubj
4	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gather	obj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 gather	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Queen	punct
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gather	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gather	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gather	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fairy	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fairy	amod
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ‘	punct
17	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fairy	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 call	cc
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 call	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 call	nsubj
21	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 call	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 call	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 call	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gather	future	you	the fruit		yourself obl; Queen obl	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the old fairy and ‘			tree rules
3	call	shall	I	‘			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	come	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=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 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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