The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 6

‘It shall be done,’ answered the youth; ‘but you must give me two years to manage it, for my beard must grow so that he may not know me.’

Who acts: you, beard · What happens: do, answer, give, manage, grow, not know · To what, where: majesty, youth, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, beard), 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	_	5 done	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 give	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 give	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 manage	mark
21	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 manage	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grow	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 grow	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 beard	nmod:poss
26	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 grow	aux
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 manage	conj
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 know	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 grow	advcl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	do	shall · passive		majesty			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert	past		the youth			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
3	give	must	you		me	year	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	manage	to-infinitive	you not said here	majesty			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	grow	must	my beard				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not know	may	beard	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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