The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 69

You can believe every word I say,’ said the crow, ‘I have a tame sweetheart in the palace, and she tells me everything.’

Who acts: You, I, princess · What happens: believe, say, have, tell · To what, where: word, crow, tame sweetheart, palace, everything, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. 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, princess), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	aux
3	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 believe	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crow	det
12	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sweetheart	det
18	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sweetheart	amod
19	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 palace	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palace	det
22	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sweetheart	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tells	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tells	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tells	nsubj
26	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believe	parataxis
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tells	iobj
28	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 tells	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	believe	can	You	every word			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	I	every word not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past		the crow			tree rules
4	have	present	I	a tame sweetheart		the palace	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetheart=Patient
5	tell speech: assert	present	princess	everything	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient everything=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 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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