The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 88

As they parted, father Peter’s last commands to Friedlin were to guard well their secret, and not even to tell it to Lucia till she was his wife.

Who acts: words, last commands, bride, father Peter · What happens: part, guard, not tell, be, command · To what, where: secret, Lucia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, last commands, bride, father Peter), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 parted	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 parted	nsubj
3	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 guard	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 parted	punct
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Peter	compound
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 commands	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Peter	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 commands	amod
9	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 guard	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Friedlin	case
11	Friedlin	Friedlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 commands	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 guard	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 guard	mark
14	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 secret	advmod
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 secret	nmod:poss
17	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guard	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 tell	advmod
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 tell	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 guard	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Lucia	case
26	Lucia	Lucia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
27	till	till	ADP	_	31 wife	case
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wife	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wife	cop
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 guard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	part	past	words = word					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	guard	past	father Peter's last commands to Friedlin	words's secret				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	father Peter's last commands to Friedlin not said here	secret	Lucia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to lucia=Recipient
4	is	past	bride			till Friedlin's wife		tree rules
5	command		father Peter				to Friedlin	nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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