The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 144

‘What!’ said she, ‘this rogue knows our secret, and you never told me!

Who acts: rogue, you · What happens: say, know, not tell · To what, where: secret, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rogue, you), 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 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj:outer
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 rogue	det
10	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 secret	nmod:poss
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 told	advmod
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	know	present	this rogue	our secret		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
3	not tell speech: assert	past	you		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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