The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 10

The first words I learned were to desire that he would please to give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my knees; but he answered that this must be a work of time, and that first I must swear a peace with him and his kingdom.

Who acts: I, first words, six, this · What happens: learn, desire, please, give, repeat, answer · To what, where: first words, liberty, me, day, knees, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first words, six, this), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 words	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 desire	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 learned	nsubj
5	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desire	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 desire	mark
8	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 please	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 please	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 please	aux
12	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 desire	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 please	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 liberty	nmod:poss
17	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 I	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 I	nsubj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 liberty	conj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 I	obl:unmarked
23	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 day	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 knees	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 knees	nmod:poss
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 repeated	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 answered	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 answered	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 answered	nsubj
30	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 desire	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 work	mark
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 work	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 work	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 work	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 work	det
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 answered	ccomp
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 time	case
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 work	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 swear	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 swear	cc
41	that	that	ADP	_	42 first	case
42	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	45 swear	obl
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 swear	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 swear	aux
45	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 desire	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 peace	det
47	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 swear	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 swear	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 kingdom	cc
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 kingdom	nmod:poss
52	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 him	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 desire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	I	the first words not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	desire	past	the first words						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	please	would	six						tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	six not said here	my liberty	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient liberty=Theme
5	repeat	participle		every day not said here		my knees			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	answer speech: assert	past	six						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	must	this	a work			time		tree rules
8	swear	must	I	a peace				with six	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent peace=Eventuality

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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