Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 95

‘If you will never repeat it to anyone, I will tell you why.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not repeat, tell · To what, where: cook, anyone, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 repeat	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 repeat	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 repeat	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 repeat	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 repeat	advmod
6	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 repeat	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 repeat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeat	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tell	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 repeat	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 repeat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not repeat	future	you	cook	anyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to anyone=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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