The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 24

“Dear mother,” said her son in despair, “if you will not tell me what is the cause of all this misery I shall leave home and wander far through the world.”

Who acts: Dear mother, you · What happens: say, not tell, be, leave, wander · To what, where: son, despair, Dear mother, cause, misery, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear mother, you), 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 despair	case
10	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tell	advmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 cause	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cause	det
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 misery	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 misery	det:predet
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 misery	det
26	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	nmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 leave	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 leave	aux
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 misery	acl:relcl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 leave	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wander	cc
32	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 leave	conj
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 wander	advmod
34	through	through	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 wander	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear mother	mother's son		despair		tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		Dear mother = mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present		the cause			of all misery	tree rules
4	leave in a quote	shall	Dear mother = mother	all misery not said here			home property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misery=Theme
5	wander in a quote	present	Dear mother = mother not said here			the world	far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory

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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