English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 33

“What can I do, my son?” said the queen, “tell me, and it shall be done if my magic has power to do it.”

Who acts: queen, magic · What happens: do, say, tell, have · To what, where: queen, morrow, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, magic), 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 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 queen	det
13	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 done	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj:pass
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux:pass
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tell	parataxis
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 has	mark
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 magic	nmod:poss
26	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 done	advcl
28	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 power	acl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	can	the queen = queen			my son vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: ask	past	the queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the queen = queen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	do in a quote	shall · passive		morrow			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	my magic	power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	my magic not said here	morrow			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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