The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 56

‘Well, but as I have come here, you might just give me leave to make the attempt,’ said Cinderlad.

Who acts: I, you, Cinderlad · What happens: come, give, leave, make, say · To what, where: me, attempt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Cinderlad), 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	_	14 give	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 give	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Well	conj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 give	advmod
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leave	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 attempt	det
20	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I			here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	might	you		me		tree rules
3	leave	infinitive	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	the attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product
5	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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