The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 35

Since you can talk, pray tell me instantly what all this is about, and how you happen to know my name.’

Who acts: you, this, my · What happens: talk, tell, be, happen, know, name · To what, where: me, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (you, this, my), 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	4 talk	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 about	det:predet
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 about	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 about	cop
14	about	about	ADV	_	10 what	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happen	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 happen	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 happen	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 happen	nsubj
19	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 know	mark
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 happen	xcomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 name	nmod:poss
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	talk	can	you				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present			me	instantly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is	present	this			about property	tree rules
4	happen	present	you				tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive	you not said here	my name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
6	name		my				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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