Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 1

“You have not told me one word about Duv Laca,” said the Flame Lady reproachfully.

Who acts: Flame Lady · What happens: not tell, say · To what, where: You, Flame Lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flame Lady), 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	_	5 told	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 word	nummod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Duv	case
10	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 word	nmod
11	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Duv	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Lady	det
16	Flame	Flame	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Lady	compound
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	reproachfully	reproachfully	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		You	the Flame Lady = lady				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Flame Lady					reproachfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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