The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 8

‘You ought not to speak to me!’ said the garter’ ‘I’m sure I haven’t given you any encouragement!’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: not speak, say, be, not give · To what, where: me, garter, encouragement, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	_	6 speak	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 speak	nsubj
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 speak	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 speak	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 speak	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 garter	det
13	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 ’m	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’m	nsubj
17	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ’m	xcomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 given	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 given	advmod
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sure	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 given	iobj
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 encouragement	det
25	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 given	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 ’m	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	ought	You		me		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the garter			tree rules
3	be	present	I			sure property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not give	present · perfect	I	any encouragement	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient encouragement=Theme

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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