The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 37

The black cow will ask you what is the meaning of all this, and you must answer what I will whisper to you.’

Who acts: black cow, you, I · What happens: ask, be, answer, whisper · To what, where: you, meaning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (black cow, you, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 meaning	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 meaning	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meaning	det
10	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 meaning	nmod
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 all	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answer	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 answer	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	aux
18	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 whisper	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 whisper	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 whisper	aux
22	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answer	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 whisper	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	future	the black cow		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	present		the meaning		of all	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	must	you				tree rules
4	whisper speech: assert	future	I		you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to you=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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