The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 32
‘Only confide your trouble in me.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: confide, trouble · To what, where: trouble
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | _ | 3 confide | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 confide | advmod |
| 3 | confide | confide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confide | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 confide | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confide | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 confide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confide speech: other | imperative | you not said here | your trouble | in me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic | |||
| 2 | trouble | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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