Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 56

"No you are not, you are not telling me the truth," said the little princess. "

Who acts: you, little princess · What happens: not tell, say · To what, where: truth, little princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little princess), 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	_	10 telling	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 telling	discourse
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 telling	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 telling	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 not	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 telling	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 telling	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 telling	advmod
10	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 telling	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 truth	det
13	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telling	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 telling	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 telling	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 princess	amod
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	you	the truth	the little princess = princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the little princess						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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