The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 77

But tell us what you will take for your guitar, for you must sell it to us?’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, take, sell · To what, where: us, guitar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 take	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 guitar	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 guitar	nmod:poss
10	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sell	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 sell	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 sell	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sell	aux
15	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sell	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sell	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	future	you			for your guitar	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for guitar=Beneficiary
3	sell	must	you	guitar	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to we=Recipient

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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