The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 41

I cannot tell you what the crown was made of, but I am quite certain that it was still more splendid than all the rest.

Who acts: I, crown · What happens: not tell, make, be · To what, where: you, crown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, crown), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crown	det
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 what	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 certain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 certain	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 certain	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 certain	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 certain	advmod
17	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 splendid	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 splendid	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 splendid	cop
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 splendid	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 splendid	advmod
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 certain	advcl
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 rest	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 rest	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rest	det
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 splendid	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	make	past · passive		the crown				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	is	present	I				certain property	tree rules
4	is	past	crown			still	than all rest; splendid property	tree rules

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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