The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 90

“No one can tell you what you wish to know better than I can,” said he.

Who acts: one, you, sight · What happens: tell, wish, know, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, you, sight), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
9	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 know	mark
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wish	xcomp
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 know	advmod
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 can	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 can	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 better	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	no one	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	sight			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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