The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 49

He said to the abbot: ‘I can’t tell you how much I enjoy that young man’s singing.

Who acts: boy, I, young man · What happens: say, not tell, enjoy, sing · To what, where: abbot, you, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, I, young man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 abbot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 abbot	det
5	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enjoy	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 enjoy	nsubj
16	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 singing	mark
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 singing	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 man	case
21	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enjoy	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy		the abbot	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to abbot=Recipient
2	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	enjoy	present	I	much		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	sing		young man			nom singing «act 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 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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