The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 74
‘But don’t say anything about it, for I am the Emperor’s daughter.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: anything · 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 say | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 say | cc |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | advmod |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 anything | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 daughter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Emperor | det |
| 14 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Emperor | case |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | anything | about waiting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | for the Emperor's daughter | 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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