English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 11

“Breeches or trousers, or whatever you please, sir.”

Who acts: you · What happens: sir

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	2 Breeches	punct
2	Breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whatever	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 trousers	cc
4	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Breeches	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whatever	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 whatever	cc
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 sir	nsubj
9	please	please	INTJ	_	11 sir	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sir	punct
11	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whatever	acl:relcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 whatever	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 whatever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sir in a quote		you						tree rules

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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