The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 79

If there is anything that I can do for you in return, you have only to tell me, and all my fairy power shall be used to make you happy.’

Who acts: anything, I, you · What happens: be, do, tell, use, make · To what, where: return, me, fairy power, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (anything, I, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 is	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	advcl
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 is	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 do	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 anything	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 return	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 tell	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 used	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 used	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 power	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 power	nmod:poss
24	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 power	compound
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 used	nsubj:pass
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 used	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	aux:pass
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tell	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 make	obj
32	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 make	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	present	anything			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	can	I			return	for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	use	shall · passive		my fairy power				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive		you			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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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