The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 46

Although the woman had not spoken a single word to her, the nurse was very much frightened, but told no one about it.

What happens: not speak, frighten, tell · To what, where: woman, nurse, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	6 spoken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoken	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 spoken	advmod
6	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 frightened	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 word	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 word	amod
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoken	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 word	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spoken	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nurse	det
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frightened	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 frightened	aux:pass
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 frightened	advmod
18	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 frightened	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive	the woman		tree rules
2	frighten	past · passive	the nurse		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	tell speech: assert	past	no one	about nurse	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about it=Topic

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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