The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 2

The clerk was no fool; he looked round about to see that no one could overhear them, and said, ‘Oh, yes, I can easily do that, but you must not speak to anyone about it.

Who acts: clerk, man, one, I, you · What happens: be, look round, see, overhear, say, do · To what, where: fool, them, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, man, one, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fool	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fool	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 fool	det
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fool	parataxis
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 looked	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 overhear	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 overhear	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 overhear	aux
17	overhear	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 overhear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	31 do	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	24 Oh	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
30	easily	easily	ADV	_	31 do	advmod
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 do	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 speak	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 speak	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 speak	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 speak	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 speak	advmod
38	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fool	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 anyone	case
40	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 speak	obl
41	about	about	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 anyone	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the clerk	no fool		tree rules
2	look round	past	man		round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	man not said here		about property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	overhear	could	no one	them = they		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	do	can	I	that	easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
7	not speak speech: other	must	you		to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

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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