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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 55

To this the faqir replied: “O youth! it would be best for you to have nothing to do with me and to know nothing of my fortunes, for my story is fit neither for telling nor for hearing.”

Who acts: faqir, story · What happens: reply, be, have, do, know, tell · To what, where: youth, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faqir, story), 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

markdetdetnsubjpunctpunctdiscourseoblpunctnsubjauxcopadvmodmarknsubjmarkacl:relclobjmarkaclcaseoblccmarkconjobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjcopparataxiscc:preconjmarkparataxiscccaseconjpunctpunctrootToSCONJthisDETtheDETfaqirNOUNrepliedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTOINTJyouthNOUN!PUNCTitPRONwouldAUXbeAUXbestADVforSCONJyouPRONtoPARThaveVERBnothingPRONtoPARTdoVERBwithADPmePRONandCCONJtoPARTknowVERBnothingPRONofADPmyPRONfortunesNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJmyPRONstoryNOUNisAUXfitADJneitherCCONJforSCONJtellingVERBnorCCONJforADPhearingNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoSCONJ_5 repliedmark
2thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 faqirdet
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 faqirdet
4faqirfaqirNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6::PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
7“"PUNCT_9 youthpunct
8OoINTJ_9 youthdiscourse
9youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobl
10!!PUNCT_9 youthpunct
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 havensubj
12wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin18 haveaux
13bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf14 bestcop
14bestwellADVDegree=Sup18 haveadvmod
15forforSCONJ_18 havemark
16youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs18 havensubj
17totoPART_18 havemark
18havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 youthacl:relcl
19nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg18 haveobj
20totoPART_21 domark
21dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf19 nothingacl
22withwithADP_23 mecase
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 doobl
24andandCCONJ_26 knowcc
25totoPART_26 knowmark
26knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf21 doconj
27nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg26 knowobj
28ofofADP_30 fortunescase
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 fortunesnmod:poss
30fortunesfortuneNOUNNumber=Plur27 nothingnmod
31,,PUNCT_36 fitpunct
32forforSCONJ_36 fitmark
33mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 storynmod:poss
34storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing36 fitnsubj
35isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 fitcop
36fitfitADJDegree=Pos26 knowparataxis
37neitherneitherCCONJPolarity=Neg39 tellingcc:preconj
38forforSCONJ_39 tellingmark
39tellingtellVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part36 fitparataxis
40nornorCCONJPolarity=Neg42 hearingcc
41forforADP_42 hearingcase
42hearinghearingNOUNNumber=Sing36 fitconj
43..PUNCT_9 youthpunct
44”"PUNCT_9 youthpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: expresspastthis faqiryouthvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is in a quoteinfinitivewell propertytree rules
3have in a quotewouldfaqirnothingvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4do in a quoteto-infinitivefaqir not said herenothing not said herewith this faqir = faqirvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5know in a quoteto-infinitivefaqir not said herenothingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6is in a quotepresentmy storyfit propertytree rules
7tell speech: assert in a quotegerundvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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