The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 20

‘Can’t tell,’ replied the Simpleton.

What happens: not tell, reply · To what, where: Simpleton · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Simpleton	det
9	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reply speech: assert	past		the Simpleton					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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