The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 8

‘My child,’ she answered, ‘I may not tell you the reason.’

Who acts: Queen, I · What happens: answer, not tell · To what, where: child, reason, you · 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 (Queen, 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 child	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 child	nmod:poss
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	nsubj
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reason	det
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Queen	My child					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	may	I	the reason	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient reason=Topic

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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