The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 57

‘Never say’t twice,’ says the prince.

What happens: not say't, say · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 say’t	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 say’t	advmod
3	say’t	say't	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 say’t	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say’t	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 say’t	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say't	infinitive						twice property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		the prince					tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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