Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 15

"Boys," she said, "I have something to tell you."

Who acts: Boys · What happens: say, have, tell · To what, where: something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys), 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 Boys	punct
2	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Boys	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Boys	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 something	acl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Boys			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	Boys = boy	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Boys = boy not said here	something not said here	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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