The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 117

You may say what you please,” said the Princess.

Who acts: You · What happens: say · 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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	9 said	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 please	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 please	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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