The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 135

I will say that I want to see what my bride can do, and bid her wash the shirt which has the three drops of tallow on it.

Who acts: I, bride, shirt · What happens: say, want, see, do, bid, wash · To what, where: bride, shirt, three drops · 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 (I, bride, shirt), 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 say	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 want	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bride	nmod:poss
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bid	cc
16	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bid	obj
18	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 bid	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shirt	det
20	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wash	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 shirt	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 drops	det
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 drops	nummod
25	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 tallow	case
27	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drops	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tallow	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	I		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	can	my bride		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	bid	past	I not said here	bride	tree rules
6	wash	infinitive	I not said here	the shirt	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient
7	have	present	the shirt	the three drops of tallow on tallow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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