The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 56

They confessed everything, but took good care not to say which had led the other two into temptation.

Who acts: daughters · What happens: confess, take, not say, lead · To what, where: everything, good care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confessed	nsubj
2	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 confessed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 confessed	conj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 care	amod
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 led	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 led	aux
14	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 say	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 two	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 two	amod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 led	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 temptation	case
19	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 two	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	confess	past	daughters = daughter	everything	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	take	past	daughters = daughter not said here	good care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lead	past · perfect			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition

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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