The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 76
The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret
Who acts: Boy · What happens: keep · To what, where: Secret
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Keep | nsubj |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 Keep | nsubj |
| 4 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Keep | aux |
| 5 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Secret | det |
| 7 | Secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Keep | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | could | the Boy | a Secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
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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