The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 54

But he replied, ‘I like that; have you nothing to tell me?’

Who acts: Benjamin, I, you · What happens: reply, like, have, tell · To what, where: that, nothing, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin, I, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 replied	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 like	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 have	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Benjamin			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	present	I	that		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	have	present	you	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	nothing not said here	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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