The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 14

‘Well, if you MUST know,’ said the wife at last, ‘I will tell you.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, say, tell · To what, where: wife, last, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 know	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
6	MUST	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 know	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 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	must	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the wife		last	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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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