The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 20

‘Oh! you are not telling me the truth, for I have your ring here in my purse.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not tell, have · To what, where: truth, me, ring, purse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	7 telling	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 telling	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 telling	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 telling	advmod
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 telling	iobj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	parataxis
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ring	nmod:poss
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 purse	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 purse	nmod:poss
20	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 telling	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · progressive	you	the truth	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic
2	have	present	I	your ring		my purse; here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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