The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 26

“‘Call me what you like,’ I said impatiently; ‘but what is it that you want--my crown, or my cities, or my treasures?’

Who acts: you, powerful fairy, ant, my · What happens: call, like, ', say, be, want · To what, where: powerful fairy, ant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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, powerful fairy, ant, my), 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	_	3 Call	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Call	punct
3	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 Call	obj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 Call	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ’	punct
9	’	'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	conj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ’	ccomp
12	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 Call	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Call	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 want	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 it	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj:outer
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 want	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Call	conj
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 crown	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 crown	nmod:poss
24	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Call	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cities	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 cities	cc
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cities	nmod:poss
28	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Call	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 treasures	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 treasures	cc
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 treasures	nmod:poss
32	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Call	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Call	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a powerful fairy like myself = fairy	my cities obl; my treasures obl	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme what=Result
2	like in a quote	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	' in a quote	present	you not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a powerful fairy like myself = fairy		impatiently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		ant		tree rules
6	want in a quote	present	ant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	crown in a quote		my			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	treasure in a quote		my			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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