English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 63
Mind and tell him I am well, and should like dearly to see him.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: mind, tell, be, like, see · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. 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 | Mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mind | conj |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 well | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 well | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 like | cc |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mind | advcl |
| 12 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 11 like | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mind | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | should | you not said here | dearly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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