Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 11

And now tell me what dress will you have?"

Who acts: you, dress · What happens: tell, have · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dress), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 dress	det
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	future	what dress						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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