The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 99

‘Well, how do you like to serve me?’ said the troll, ‘and how do you like being a hare?’

Who acts: you · What happens: like, serve, say, be · To what, where: me, troll, hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 like	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 like	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 serve	mark
9	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 serve	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 like	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 troll	det
15	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 like	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 like	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 like	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 like	nsubj
22	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 hare	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 like	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	present · do-support	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	serve not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past		the troll	tree rules
4	like	present · do-support	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	gerund		a hare	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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