The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 111

“And won’t you tell it to me either?” asked the king in surprise.

Who acts: you, king · What happens: not tell, ask · To what, where: dream, surprise · 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, king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	obl
10	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 tell	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 surprise	case
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	you		dream			to the king = king; either property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	the king			surprise			vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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