The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 8

In two months you may come back to me again, and I shall expect you to tell me what you think of her.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come back, expect, tell, think · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 months	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expect	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 expect	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 expect	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 expect	aux
15	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 expect	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expect	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 tell	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 think	nsubj
22	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 think	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	may	you		me	again; month		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	expect	shall	I	you				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic
4	think speech: other	present	you				of Fairy	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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