The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 67
“Didn’t I tell you that it was no good doing that,” said Wildrose, more impatiently than before.
Who acts: Wildrose, it · What happens: not tell, be, do, say · To what, where: you, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wildrose, it), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 good | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 good | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 good | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 good | csubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 doing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | Wildrose | Wildrose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 impatiently | punct |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 impatiently | advmod |
| 20 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 before | case |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 impatiently | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | Wildrose | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | gerund | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Wildrose | impatiently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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