The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 106

The old wizard has not told thee wrong, neither have the birds deceived thee; hasten and dry the maiden’s tears.”

Who acts: birds · What happens: not tell, have, deceive, hasten, dry · To what, where: old wizard, thee, tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wizard	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wizard	amod
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 told	iobj
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 have	cc:preconj
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 deceived	nsubj
14	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	ccomp
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 deceived	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hasten	punct
17	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dry	cc
19	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 hasten	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maiden	det
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tears	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 maiden	case
23	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dry	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hasten	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the old wizard	thee	wrong property	tree rules
2	have	infinitive					tree rules
3	deceive	past	the birds	thee			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient
4	hasten	infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	dry	infinitive		the maiden's tears			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result

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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