The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 13

‘I need not be telling you anything.

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell · To what, where: anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (I), 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	_	6 telling	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 telling	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 telling	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 telling	aux
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 telling	iobj
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 telling	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · progressive	I	anything	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=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 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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