The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 63

Tell me your secret; who are you, and how did you come here?

Who acts: you, secret · What happens: tell, be, come · To what, where: secret, me, you · 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 (you, secret), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 secret	nmod:poss
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 you	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 you	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 secret	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 come	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 come	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your secret	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient secret=Topic
2	is a	present	your secret	you			tree rules
3	come	past · do-support	you			here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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