The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 63

“Ah! shepherdess,” said the hen, “don’t kill me; I am rather a gossip, and I can tell you some surprising things that you will like to hear.

Who acts: shepherdess, hen, you · What happens: say, not kill, be, tell, like, hear · To what, where: shepherdess, gossip, surprising things, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherdess, hen, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 shepherdess	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shepherdess	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 shepherdess	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 kill	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 kill	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 kill	advmod
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hen	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 kill	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gossip	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gossip	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gossip	cop
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	21 gossip	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gossip	det
21	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 things	det
29	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 things	amod
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tell	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 like	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 like	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 like	aux
34	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 things	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hear	mark
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 like	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	shepherdess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not kill in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the hen not said here	shepherdess		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	shepherdess	a gossip		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	shepherdess	some surprising things	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic
5	like in a quote	future	you	some surprising things		tree rules
6	hear not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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