The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 147

‘Yes, and as soon as you have ferried me across I will tell you what you want to know.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: ferry, tell, want, know · To what, where: me, you · 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, 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	_	15 tell	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 ferried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ferried	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ferried	cc
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 soon	advmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 ferried	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 ferried	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 ferried	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ferried	aux
10	ferried	ferry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tell	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ferried	obj
12	across	across	ADP	_	15 tell	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 want	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 want	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ferry	present · perfect	you	me		soon property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want	present	you				tree rules
4	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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