The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 2

‘I cannot tell--I did not dare to ask her; but perhaps she would tell you.’

Who acts: I, she · What happens: not tell, not dare, not ask, tell · To what, where: her, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, she), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 dare	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dare	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dare	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dare	advmod
10	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ask	mark
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dare	xcomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	iobj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 tell	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not dare	past · do-support	I			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here	her = she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	would	she	you	perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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