The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 20

“Tell me your secret and I will marry you,” she said to him; but the boy only gave her the beating he had promised her long ago, when she asked him the same question.

Who acts: king, princess, boy · What happens: tell, marry, say, give, promise, ask · To what, where: secret, princess, king, beating, same question, 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 (king, princess, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 secret	nmod:poss
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 marry	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 marry	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 marry	aux
9	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 gave	advmod
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beating	det
25	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 promised	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 promised	aux
28	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 beating	acl:relcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 promised	iobj
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 ago	advmod
31	ago	ago	ADV	_	28 promised	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 asked	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 asked	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	nsubj
35	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gave	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 asked	iobj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 question	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 question	amod
39	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 asked	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	king not said here	your secret	princess		tree rules
2	marry in a quote	future	princess	king			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	princess		king		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	give	past	the boy	the beating	princess		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient beating=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	boy	the beating not said here	princess	ago property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	princess	the same question	boy		tree rules

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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