The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 88

“No, mother; I can’t tell it to anybody,” returned the boy, “till it comes true.”

Who acts: mother, dream · What happens: not tell, return, come · To what, where: dream, anybody, boy · 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 (mother, 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	_	4 mother	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 returned	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 mother	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 anybody	case
12	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
15	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 returned	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 returned	conj
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 comes	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 returned	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	mother	dream	anybody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anybody=Recipient
2	return	past	mother	the boy			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
3	come in a quote	present	dream			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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