The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 35

“That I cannot tell you,” answered the youth, “until it comes true.”

Who acts: youth · What happens: not tell, answer, come · To what, where: That, you · 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 (youth), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tell	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 comes	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comes	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the youth = youth	That	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past	the youth				tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	youth			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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