The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 131

So Alfin went sadly home, but would not tell anything about his adventures, only saying grimly, ‘Now it is Ciccu’s turn.’

Who acts: Alfin, adventure · What happens: go, not tell, say, be, adventure · To what, where: anything, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfin, adventure), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	Alfin	Alfin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 home	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 tell	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 adventures	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 adventures	nmod:poss
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 anything	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 saying	advmod
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 tell	advcl
18	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	17 saying	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 turn	punct
21	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 turn	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 turn	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 turn	cop
24	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 turn	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Ciccu	case
26	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saying	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Alfin			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	would	Alfin not said here	anything		about Alfin's adventures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient about adventure=Topic
3	say speech: assert	gerund	Alfin not said here			grimly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	adventure	Ciccu's turn	now		tree rules
5	adventure		Alfin				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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