The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 7

‘I shall never forget you, never,’ she said in a broken voice, ‘but the only tokens I will accept from you are that little ring and this old casket.’

Who acts: I, girl, only tokens · What happens: not forget, say, break, accept, be · To what, where: you, broken voice, only tokens, little ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, girl, only tokens), 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 forget	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forget	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forget	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 forget	advmod
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 never	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 forget	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 forget	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 voice	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 voice	det
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 voice	amod
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ring	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 ring	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tokens	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tokens	det
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tokens	amod
22	tokens	token	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ring	nsubj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 accept	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 accept	aux
25	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tokens	acl:relcl
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 accept	obl
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ring	cop
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 ring	mark
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ring	amod
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 casket	cc
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 casket	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 casket	amod
35	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ring	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 ring	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 ring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not forget	shall	I	you			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	girl		a broken voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	accept	future	I	the only tokens not said here		from you	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent token=Theme from you=Source
5	is a	present	the only tokens	little ring and this old casket			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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