The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 6
“I warned you not to show them to anybody,” said the Holy Man.
Who acts: I, you, Holy Man · What happens: warn, not show, say · To what, where: them, anybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Holy Man), 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 | _ | 3 warned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 warned | nsubj |
| 3 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 show | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 show | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warned | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 show | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 anybody | case |
| 10 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 show | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 warned | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 warned | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Man | det |
| 15 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 16 Man | compound |
| 16 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn in a quote | past | I | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not show in a quote | to-infinitive | you | them = they | anybody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to anybody=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Holy Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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