The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 14

The parrot did not need to be told twice.

Who acts: parrot · What happens: not need, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 told	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 need	xcomp
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 told	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	past · do-support	the parrot						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the parrot not said here					twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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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