The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 205

‘Tell him all my body aches badly; I have no single part without pain.’

Who acts: you, body, I · What happens: tell, ache, have · To what, where: son, single part · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, body, 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 body	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 aches	nsubj
7	aches	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
8	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 aches	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	advcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 part	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 pain	case
16	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ache	present	my body			badly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	I	no single part		without pain	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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