The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 34

'Tell me, dear mother, where did my eldest brother conceal his riches?'

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, do, conceal · To what, where: dear mother, me, eldest brother, riches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 did	advmod
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	acl:relcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	conceal	conceal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 riches	nmod:poss
15	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 conceal	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	dear mother	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient mother=Topic
2	do	past		my eldest brother		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
3	conceal	infinitive	you not said here	man's riches		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/36/34/