The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 106

‘Will you tell us a story?’ said the sultana; ‘one that is thoughtful and instructive?’

Who acts: you, one · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: story, us, sultana · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sultana	det
12	sultana	sultana	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thoughtful	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 thoughtful	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 thoughtful	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thoughtful	cop
18	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 instructive	cc
20	instructive	instructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thoughtful	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 thoughtful	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 thoughtful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	you	a story	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient story=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past		the sultana			tree rules
3	is	present	one			thoughtful property	tree rules
4	be		one not said here				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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