The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 108

‘You may tell him from me that he must first give me some proof of this.

Who acts: You, man · What happens: tell, give, proof · To what, where: man, proof, me, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 give	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 give	advmod
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 proof	det
15	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 proof	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	may	You		man	from me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	must	man	some proof of this	me	first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient proof=Theme
3	proof			this			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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