The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 6

“He will tell me,” answered the eldest princess; but the boy only shook his head.

Who acts: king, eldest princess, boy · What happens: tell, answer, shake · To what, where: eldest princess, head · 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, eldest 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 princess	amod
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shook	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 shook	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shook	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 shook	advmod
17	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shook	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	king		the eldest princess = princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	the eldest princess			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	past	the boy	king's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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