The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 89

“Nor to tell everybody that I gave it to you,” went on the Holy Man.

Who acts: Father · What happens: tell, give, go · To what, where: everybody, world, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	ccomp
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 tell	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 everybody	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 Man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Man	det
17	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	18 Man	compound
18	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive			everybody		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient
2	give in a quote	past	Father	world	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient it=Theme
3	go	past				on the Holy Man	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: 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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