The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 57
“Only one thing,” replied the Spirit, “but that I do not like to tell you.”
Who acts: one thing · What happens: reply, not like, tell · To what, where: Spirit, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Spirit | det |
| 9 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 like | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 like | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | one thing | the Spirit | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spirit=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | one thing = thing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | one thing = thing not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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