The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 5

The only lie I have ever told you was about the robes, and I do not deserve death for that.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, be, not deserve · To what, where: only lie, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	3 lie	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lie	amod
3	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 robes	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 robes	cop
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 robes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 robes	det
12	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deserve	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deserve	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 deserve	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 deserve	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 deserve	advmod
18	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deserve	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 deserve	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the only lie	ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is	past	you			about the robes	tree rules
3	not deserve	present · do-support	I	death		for that	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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