The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 86

But I am only going to tell one story.

Who acts: I · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: one story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 going	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 story	nummod
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	one story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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