The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 9

“Tell me why you have chosen a green dress.”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, choose · To what, where: me, green dress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chosen	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 chosen	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chosen	aux
7	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dress	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dress	amod
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chosen	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	choose in a quote	present · perfect	you	a green dress					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=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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