The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 106

Now, if you could tell me something as wonderful as you have told already, I would pardon him likewise; I pity this youth and do not want to put him to death if I could help it.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, pardon, pity, not want, put, help · To what, where: something, me, you, Thief, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 tell	obj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 wonderful	advmod
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 pardon	advcl
15	already	already	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pardon	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pardon	aux
19	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pardon	obj
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	19 pardon	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 pity	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pity	nsubj
24	pity	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	parataxis
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 youth	det
26	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pity	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 want	cc
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 want	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 want	advmod
30	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pity	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 put	mark
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 death	case
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 help	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 help	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 help	aux
39	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 put	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 help	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	you	something	me	now		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	pardon	would	I	Thief			likewise property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	pity	present	I	this youth				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus
5	not want	present · do-support	I not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		Thief		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
7	help a condition, not said to happen	could	I	youth				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

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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