The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 69

“You are my father,” he told one bone, “and you are my mother.

Who acts: You, baby · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: father, one bone, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 father	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 father	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bone	nummod
11	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 mother	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mother	cop
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bone	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	my father	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	baby	one bone and my mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	you	my mother	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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