The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 65

‘I have only one thing to ask of you,’ said the fox, ‘and that is, that you should cut off my head with your sword.’

Who acts: I, that · What happens: have, ask, say, be · To what, where: one thing, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ask	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ‘	punct
17	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fox	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 cut	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 cut	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 cut	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	aux
25	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 sword	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sword	nmod:poss
31	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	one thing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here	one thing not said here	of you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		the fox and ‘		tree rules
4	is	should · present	that		with your sword; cut property	tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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