The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 110

“Because I will never tell it to anyone till it comes true,” answered the boy.

Who acts: boy, dream · What happens: not tell, come, answer · To what, where: dream, anyone · 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 (boy, dream), 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 tell	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 tell	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 tell	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 comes	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
13	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comes	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the boy = boy	dream	anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anyone=Recipient
2	come in a quote	present	dream			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the boy				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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