The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 20

The poor creature told her frankly all the matter, not without dropping out infinite numbers of diamonds.

Who acts: poor creature · What happens: tell, not drop out · To what, where: mother, infinite numbers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor creature), 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 creature	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	frankly	frankly	ADV	_	7 all	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 matter	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dropping	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dropping	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 dropping	mark
13	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 dropping	compound:prt
15	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 numbers	amod
16	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dropping	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 diamonds	case
18	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 numbers	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the poor creature		mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	not drop out	gerund	the poor creature not said here	infinite numbers of diamonds					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme

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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