The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 9
“I am telling you the exact truth,” answered the young man.
Who acts: young man · What happens: tell, answer · To what, where: exact truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. 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 | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | csubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 7 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 truth | amod |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | the young man = man | the exact truth | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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