The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 37
“I will tell nobody,” replied the youth, and as he spoke the sword clanked loudly.
Who acts: youth, king, sword · What happens: tell, reply, speak, clank · To what, where: nobody · 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, king, sword), 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 | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spoke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clanked | nsubj |
| 18 | clanked | clank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spoke | ccomp |
| 19 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 18 clanked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the youth = youth | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | clank | past | the sword | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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