The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 53
“Tell me,” she said, coaxingly, “what is this wonderful secret?
Who acts: lad · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: lad, wonderful secret · 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 (lad), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coaxingly | punct |
| 9 | coaxingly | coaxingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 secret | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 secret | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 secret | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 secret | cop |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 secret | det |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 secret | amod |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coaxingly | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | lad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this wonderful secret | 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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