The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 97

After dinner he will question you, and then tell him all your troubles freely.

Who acts: story, your · What happens: question, tell, trouble · To what, where: you, troubles, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (story, your), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 question	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 question	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 question	aux
5	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 question	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 question	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 troubles	det:predet
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 troubles	nmod:poss
14	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	obj
15	freely	freely	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	future	story		you	after dinner		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	story not said here	your troubles	story	then	freely property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trouble=Topic
3	trouble		your					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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