Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 39

But ask me what you please, and I will answer to the best of my ability."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: ask, answer · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 ask	cc
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ask	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 ask	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 what	nsubj
6	please	please	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answer	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 answer	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 answer	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 answer	aux
11	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 best	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 best	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 answer	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 ability	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ability	nmod:poss
17	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 best	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		me				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	future	I						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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