The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 78

At last he said: “Well, if you won’t tell me, confide your trouble to the iron stove there,” and he went away.

Who acts: King, you, your · What happens: say, not tell, confide, stove, go away, trouble · To what, where: last, King, trouble, iron · 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 (King, you, your), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
7	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 tell	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Well	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 tell	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 confide	punct
16	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	conj
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 trouble	nmod:poss
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confide	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 iron	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 iron	det
21	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confide	obl
22	stove	stove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 confide	conj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 stove	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King			last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	confide speech: other in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your trouble	the iron			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic to iron=Recipient
4	stove in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			there		tree rules
5	go away	past	King				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	trouble in a quote		your					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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