The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 57

‘Oh, then you can whisper it to me.’

Who acts: you · What happens: whisper · To what, where: waiting, me

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 (you), 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	_	7 whisper	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 whisper	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 whisper	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 whisper	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 whisper	aux
7	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 whisper	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 whisper	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 whisper	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 whisper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	can	you	waiting	me		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient

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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