The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 100

And now she wishes to ask you if you have ever been there, and can tell her the way, for she would gladly find him again.”

Who acts: girl, you · What happens: wish, ask, be, tell, find · To what, where: you, way, girl, Wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 wishes	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wishes	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wishes	nsubj
4	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 wishes	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 there	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 there	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 there	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 there	advmod
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 ask	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tell	cc
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 find	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
25	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	26 find	advmod
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 find	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	girl			now		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive			you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you			ever	there property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	can		the way	girl			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=Topic
5	find	would	girl	Wind		again	gladly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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