The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 15

‘Tell your slave,’ said he, ‘to carry this wherever you please, but on no account to open it.

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: tell, say, carry, open · To what, where: slave, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 slave	nmod:poss
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 carry	mark
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 carry	obj
14	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	12 carry	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wherever	nsubj
16	please	please	INTJ	_	14 wherever	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 account	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 account	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 account	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 account	det
21	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 open	mark
23	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 account	acl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 open	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive		your slave		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Fairy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	this	wherever property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4	open	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here	slave		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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