The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 83

But pleased though the boy was, he determined not to tell anyone about it, particularly not his mother, who never could keep anything from her neighbours.

Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: be, determine, not tell, not keep · To what, where: anyone, anything, neighbours · 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, mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 pleased	cc
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pleased	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 determined	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 determined	nsubj
9	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pleased	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determined	xcomp
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 tell	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
17	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	20 mother	advmod
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 mother	advmod
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 keep	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 keep	advmod
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 keep	aux
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 mother	conj
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 keep	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 neighbours	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neighbours	nmod:poss
29	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keep	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	the boy					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	determine	past	Boy					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Boy not said here		anyone		about sword	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic
4	not keep	could	Boy's mother	anything		wife's neighbours		vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer anything=Beneficiary from neighbour=Eventuality

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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