The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33

Would you have me turn black under your very eyes?’

Who acts: you, me · What happens: have, turn · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. 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), 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 eyes	advmod
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 black	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	you	me					tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	me not said here					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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