The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 97

‘I shall be grateful to you all my life, old dame,’ said the Princess, ‘if you will tell me what is the matter with my husband.

Who acts: I, Princess, you · What happens: be, say, tell · To what, where: you, me, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Princess, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 grateful	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grateful	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 grateful	cop
5	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 grateful	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 life	det:predet
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grateful	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dame	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dame	amod
13	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grateful	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 grateful	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 tell	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 matter	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 husband	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 matter	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	shall	I		you	my life obl; grateful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	future	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	present		the matter		with my husband	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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