The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 47

‘If you really love me,’ she said, ‘you will manage it, somehow or other, and the King and Queen need never know anything about it.’

Who acts: you, Princess, King · What happens: love, say, manage, not know · To what, where: me, entry, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess, King), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 love	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 love	advmod
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 love	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct
12	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	15 manage	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 manage	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 manage	aux
15	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 manage	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 somehow	punct
18	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	15 manage	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 other	cc
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 somehow	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 know	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 know	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Queen	cc
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 King	conj
27	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 manage	conj
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 know	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 anything	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	manage	future	you	entry	somehow property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not know	present	the King and Queen	anything	about entry	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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