The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 78

And so the Prince would never tell her one word.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: not tell · To what, where: one word, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 word	nummod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	would	the Prince	one word	queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient word=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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