The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 56

‘I really hardly like to tell you,’ answered the lady-in-waiting.

Who acts: I · What happens: like, tell, answer · To what, where: you, waiting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	5 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waiting	det
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waiting	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 waiting	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 waiting	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
17	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	infinitive	I			hardly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past		the waiting			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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