The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 45

‘Brother, it is not needful that I should tell you how poor I am; you can see that for yourself.

Who acts: Brother, I, you · What happens: not be, tell, be, see · To what, where: you, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, I, 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	_	2 Brother	punct
2	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needful	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brother	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needful	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needful	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 needful	advmod
7	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 tell	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needful	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 poor	advmod
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	ccomp
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 poor	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 poor	cop
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needful	parataxis
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 see	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 yourself	case
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 see	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 needful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Brother			needful property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	should	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	I			poor property	tree rules
4	see	can	you	that		for yourself	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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