The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 25

Tell me how you came to go there again.’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, come, go · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 go	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past	you				tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	you not said here		there	again	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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