The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 10

“I will tell nobody till it comes true,” said the boy, as he had said before; “and I will beat anybody who asks me.”

Who acts: boy, head · What happens: tell, come, say, beat, ask · To what, where: nobody, anybody, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, head), 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 tell	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 comes	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	conj
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 said	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 beat	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 beat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beat	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 beat	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 beat	aux
26	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
27	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 beat	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 asks	nsubj
29	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 anybody	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 asks	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 beat	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the boy = boy		nobody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient
2	come in a quote	present	head			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	boy			before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	beat in a quote	future	the boy = boy	anybody			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anybody=Theme
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	present			the boy = boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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