The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 16
If you are really good enough to wish to do me a favor, I beg that you will become his friend.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, wish, do, beg, become · To what, where: favor, me, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 good | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beg | obl |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wish | mark |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | csubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 favor | det |
| 13 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beg | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 beg | nsubj |
| 16 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 become | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 become | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beg | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 beg | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | a favor | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | I | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | become | future | you | doubt's friend | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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