English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 19

“Now, my dear,” said she, “I'll tell you what you shall do.

Who acts: Mrs., you · What happens: say, tell, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs., you), 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	_	5 dear	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dear	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dear	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 dear	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mrs.		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Mrs.	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	shall	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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