The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 25
Then he asked them not to speak of him to anyone, and to keep his affairs secret.
Who acts: prince · What happens: ask, not speak, keep · To what, where: drums, affairs secret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 speak | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 speak | mark |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 speak | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 secret | nmod:poss |
| 17 | affairs | affairs | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 secret | amod |
| 18 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | prince | drums = drum | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | of prince; to anyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince's affairs secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
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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