The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 92
In return, ask of me anything thou desirest.
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: ask, desire · To what, where: anything, return
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 return | case |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | obl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 ask | obj |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 desirest | nsubj |
| 9 | desirest | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 anything | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | anything | return | of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient | ||
| 2 | desire | present | thou | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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