The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 84

‘Pray tell me at once who it is, and don’t keep me in suspense!’

Who acts: Pray, lovely original · What happens: tell, be, not keep · To what, where: me, suspense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, lovely original), 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	_	3 tell	punct
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 tell	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	3 tell	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 who	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 who	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 keep	advmod
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 keep	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 suspense	case
17	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Pray		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present	lovely original = original				tree rules
3	not keep	infinitive · do-support	Pray not said here	me		suspense	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in suspense=Location

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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