The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 192

Don’t tell anyone that you have a little bird who tells you everything.

Who acts: you, little bird · What happens: not tell, have, tell · To what, where: anyone, little bird, everything, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little bird), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tell	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 have	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 anyone	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bird	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tells	iobj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 tells	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here		anyone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	have	present	you	a little bird		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	a little bird	everything	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=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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