Just so stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, sentence 57

Don’t tell her I didn’t tell you,’ said Slow-Solid.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not tell, say · To what, where: Mummy, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Beginning of the Armadillos. 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
13	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Solid	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Slow	punct
15	Solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	Mummy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past			solid property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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