The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 76

“I may not tell you why; how dare I confide my woes to anyone? for I swore not to by heaven, otherwise I should have lost my life.”

Who acts: I · What happens: not tell, confide, swear, lose · To what, where: you, woes, anyone, heaven, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 confide	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 confide	advmod
10	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confide	compound
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 confide	nsubj
12	confide	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 woes	nmod:poss
14	woes	woe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 confide	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 anyone	case
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 confide	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 swore	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 swore	nsubj
20	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 heaven	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	21 not	fixed
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 heaven	case
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swore	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lost	punct
26	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	30 lost	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lost	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 lost	aux
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 swore	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lost	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	may	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	confide speech: other in a quote	present	I	my woes	anyone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent woe=Topic to anyone=Recipient
3	swear in a quote	past	I	heaven			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Eventuality
4	lose in a quote	should · perfect	I	my life		otherwise property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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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