The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 29

‘And what would you advise me to do?’ said she; ‘I am wholly at a loss in what manner to act in this affair.’

Who acts: you, me, Queen, I · What happens: advise, do, say, be, act · To what, where: me, loss, affair · 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, me, Queen, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 advise	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 advise	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 advise	obj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 advise	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 advise	nsubj
6	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 advise	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 advise	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 advise	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 advise	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 loss	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 loss	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 loss	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 loss	cop
18	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	21 loss	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 loss	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 loss	det
21	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 loss	nmod
24	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 act	mark
26	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 manner	acl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 affair	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 affair	det
29	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 act	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 loss	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	would	you	me			tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	I		a loss	wholly property	tree rules
5	act	to-infinitive	I not said here		this affair		vn act-114-1-1 «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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