The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 27

‘I will tell you everything,’ said the man in the cauldron; ‘but first relieve my torments a little, I implore you.’

Who acts: I, man, my · What happens: tell, say, relieve, implore, torment · To what, where: everything, you, torments · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (I, man, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cauldron	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cauldron	det
14	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 relieve	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 relieve	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 relieve	cc
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 relieve	advmod
19	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 torments	nmod:poss
21	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 relieve	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 relieve	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 implore	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 implore	nsubj
26	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 relieve	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 implore	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 relieve	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 relieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	everything	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the man in the cauldron				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	relieve	infinitive		my torments		a little obl:unmarked; first property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus torment=Experiencer
4	implore	present	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	torment		my				nom torment «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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