The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 58

I will speak with you again, but now tell your mistress I am come.”

Who acts: I · What happens: speak, tell, come · To what, where: mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 speak	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 speak	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 speak	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 speak	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mistress	nmod:poss
12	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	future	I		again	with you	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here	your mistress	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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