The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 122

Will you tell me what it means?’

Who acts: you, dream · What happens: tell, mean · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dream), 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	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 means	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	you		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mean	present	dream						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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