The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 3

“I cannot tell if the spectre lied, for never a step did I go towards finding the hollow, for two reasons:—one was that my neck was too precious for me to risk it in such a snare as that; the other, that no one could ever tell me where the spring-root was to be found.”

Who acts: I, spectre, step, one, me · What happens: not tell, lie, not go, find, be, risk · To what, where: hollow, neck, snare, me, spring root · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spectre, step, one), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 lied	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spectre	det
8	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lied	nsubj
9	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 go	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 step	det
14	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
18	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	19 finding	mark
19	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hollow	det
21	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 finding	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reasons	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 reasons	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 reasons	nummod
25	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 finding	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 precious	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 precious	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 precious	cop
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 precious	mark
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 precious	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 precious	cop
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 precious	advmod
35	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	ccomp
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 risk	mark
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 risk	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 risk	mark
39	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 precious	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 risk	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 snare	case
42	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	44 snare	det:predet
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 snare	det
44	snare	snare	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 risk	obl
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 that	case
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 risk	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 other	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 other	det
49	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 precious	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 tell	punct
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	56 tell	mark
52	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	53 one	det
53	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tell	nsubj
54	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 tell	aux
55	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	56 tell	advmod
56	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 precious	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 tell	iobj
58	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	66 found	advmod
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 root	det
60	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 root	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 spring	punct
62	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 found	nsubj:pass
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 found	aux:pass
64	to	to	PART	_	66 found	mark
65	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	66 found	aux:pass
66	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 tell	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
68	”	"	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	can	I						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the spectre						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not go in a quote	past · do-support	a step						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find in a quote	gerund	a step not said here	the hollow				for two reasons	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hollow=Theme for reason=Beneficiary
5	is in a quote	past	one					precious property	tree rules
6	risk in a quote	to-infinitive	me	neck		such snare		as that	vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot
7	be in a quote		one not said here						tree rules
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	no one		me		ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
9	find in a quote	past · passive		the spring root					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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