The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 15

‘Well, trust me,’ said the master, ‘I will keep it to myself; or, if you do not like to do that, confess it to your pastor, or go into some field outside the town and dig a hole, and, after you have dug it, kneel down and whisper your secret three times into the hole.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: trust, say, keep, not like, do, confess · To what, where: me, master, secret, myself, that, pastor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	_	4 trust	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 trust	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 trust	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trust	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 trust	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 keep	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 keep	aux
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 myself	case
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 keep	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 like	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 or	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 like	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 like	advmod
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 keep	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 do	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 confess	punct
31	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 keep	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 confess	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 pastor	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pastor	nmod:poss
35	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confess	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 go	cc
38	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 confess	parataxis
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 field	case
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 field	det
41	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
42	outside	outside	ADP	_	44 town	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 town	det
44	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dig	cc
46	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 go	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 hole	det
48	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 dig	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dug	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 dug	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dug	punct
52	after	after	SCONJ	_	55 dug	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 dug	nsubj
54	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 dug	aux
55	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 dug	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 kneel	punct
58	kneel	kneel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 dug	advcl
59	down	down	ADV	_	58 kneel	advmod
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 whisper	cc
61	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 kneel	conj
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 secret	nmod:poss
63	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 whisper	obj
64	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 times	nummod
65	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 whisper	obl:unmarked
66	into	into	ADP	_	68 hole	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 hole	det
68	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 whisper	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	infinitive		me					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the master					tree rules
3	keep	future	I	secret	myself				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not like a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
6	confess	infinitive	I not said here	secret	your pastor				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to pastor=Recipient
7	go	infinitive				some field		outside the town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
8	dig	infinitive		a hole					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
9	dig	present · perfect	you	secret					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	kneel down	infinitive	you not said here					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	whisper speech: assert	present	you not said here	your secret		the hole	time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic into hole=Recipient

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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