The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 78

‘I have come to tell you that I can do as you command if you will give me twenty ships, and load them with the most precious wares in your kingdom.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: come, tell, do, command, give, load · To what, where: you, twenty ships, me, ships · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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, 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	_	4 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 command	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 command	nsubj
14	command	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 command	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 ships	nummod
21	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 load	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 load	cc
24	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 load	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 wares	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wares	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 precious	advmod
29	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wares	amod
30	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 load	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 kingdom	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 kingdom	nmod:poss
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wares	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	can	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	command	present	you				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give a condition, not said to happen	future	you	twenty ships	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ship=Theme
6	load	infinitive	I not said here	ships = ship		with the precious wares in your kingdom	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with ware=Theme

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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