The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 76

The baby answered him in all, and no one could have told which was his native tongue!

Who acts: baby · What happens: answer, tell, be · To what, where: prince, all, one, native tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 answered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj:pass
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	aux
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 answered	parataxis
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tongue	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tongue	cop
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
17	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tongue	amod
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the baby		prince	all	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		no one			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is a	past		prince's native tongue			tree rules

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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