The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 47

‘I tell you, once and for all, I do not mean to come, so go away.’

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not mean, come, go away · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 once	punct
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 tell	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mean	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 mean	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mean	advmod
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 once	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mean	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	not mean	present · do-support	I		for all	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go away	infinitive	I not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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