The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 109

“And why wouldn’t you tell it to her?”

Who acts: you · What happens: tell · To what, where: dream, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	7 tell	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 would	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 would	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 would	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	you	dream	mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to she=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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