The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 139

‘Now,’ said the king, ‘you must tell us as many undoubted truths as will fill that tub, or you can’t have the princess.’

Who acts: you · What happens: say, tell, fill, not have · To what, where: king, many undoubted truths, us, tub, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 truths	amod
16	undoubted	undoubted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 truths	amod
17	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tell	obj
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 fill	mark
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 fill	aux
20	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	advcl
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 tub	det
22	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fill	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
26	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the king		now	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	must	you	many undoubted truths	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient truth=Topic
3	fill	future	you not said here	that tub			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tub=Patient
4	not have	can	you	the princess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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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