The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 46

But tell me why you have never served the queen of all dishes, a Suzeraine Pasty?’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, not serve · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 tell	cc
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 served	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 served	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 served	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 served	advmod
8	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tell	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 queen	det
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 served	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dishes	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 dishes	det
13	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 queen	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Pasty	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Pasty	det
16	Suzeraine	Suzeraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Pasty	compound
17	Pasty	pasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dishes	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	not serve	present · perfect · passive		you					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 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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