English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 5

So he says to the second, “How much do _you_ love me, my dear?”

Who acts: gentleman, second · What happens: say, love · To what, where: second, gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, second), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 second	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 says	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 love	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 do	obj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 love	aux
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 do	discourse
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 love	nsubj
14	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 love	aux
15	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 love	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dear	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dear	nmod:poss
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 love	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	gentleman		the second				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to second=Recipient clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present · do-support	the second = second	gentleman					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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