The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 60
“I will tell you,” said she; “but as I feel that I am going to die I shall keep that piece of news to myself, till you have brought me to life again.”
Who acts: sword, you · What happens: tell, say, feel, go, die, keep · To what, where: you, piece, sword, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 feel | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 feel | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 feel | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 die | conj |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 piece | det |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 news | case |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piece | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 myself | case |
| 30 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 keep | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 32 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 brought | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 brought | aux |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 keep | parataxis |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 brought | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | sword | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | present | sword | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | sword | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | sword not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | shall | sword | that piece of news | sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 7 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | you | sword | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to life=Destination |
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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