The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 46

‘I will tell you,’ answered Désiré, ‘though most likely you will laugh at me.

Who acts: I, most · What happens: tell, answer, laugh · To what, where: you, Désiré · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, most), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laugh	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 laugh	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 laugh	mark
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 laugh	nsubj
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	17 laugh	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 laugh	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 laugh	aux
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 laugh	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past		Désiré		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent désiré=Eventuality
3	laugh	future	most		at me; likely property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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