The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 50

‘Don’t tell such wicked lies!’ scolded the woman.

What happens: not tell, scold · To what, where: such wicked lies, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 scolded	ccomp
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	amod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lies	amod
7	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
10	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scolded	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	infinitive · do-support		such wicked lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
2	scold	past		the woman					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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