The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 40

'No, no; but--oh, 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 29. 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	_	13 tell	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 No	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
8	oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 tell	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tell	advmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	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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