The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 59

“Oh, don’t speak of them!” answered the young man; “I really can hardly tell you.

Who acts: young man · What happens: not speak, answer, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	_	6 speak	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 speak	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speak	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	nsubj
18	really	really	ADV	_	21 tell	advmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 tell	aux
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	21 tell	advmod
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support			of pigs = pig	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: express	past	the young man			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the young man = man	you	hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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