The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 1

'Ah, my father, how can I tell you!

Who acts: I · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	5 father	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 tell	advmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 father	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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