The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 51

Come in, then, and I will give you some supper, and while you are eating I can tell you my story in a very few words--for I don’t like endless tales myself.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come in, give, eat, tell, not like · To what, where: supper, you, story, few words, endless tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 give	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 supper	det
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eating	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eating	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 eating	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 eating	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eating	aux
18	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 give	advcl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eating	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 story	nmod:poss
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 words	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 words	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 few	advmod
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 words	amod
29	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tell	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 like	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 like	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 like	nsubj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 like	aux
34	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 like	advmod
35	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tell	parataxis
36	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tales	amod
37	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 like	obj
38	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 like	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	imperative	you not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	future	I	some supper	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient supper=Theme
3	eat	present · progressive	you						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	can	I	my story	you	a few words			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
5	not like	present · do-support	I	endless tales				myself obl:unmarked	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme

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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