The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 12

She never tells anyone, however, that it was your gift, though she often speaks of your kindness in general.

Who acts: Sylvia, gift · What happens: not tell, be, speak · To what, where: anyone, gift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvia, gift), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tells	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 tells	advmod
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tells	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	3 tells	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gift	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 gift	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gift	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gift	cop
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gift	nmod:poss
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speaks	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 speaks	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speaks	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 speaks	advmod
17	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 kindness	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 kindness	nmod:poss
20	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speaks	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 general	case
22	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kindness	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	Sylvia		anyone	however property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	is a	past	gift	your gift			tree rules
3	speak speech: other	present	Sylvia			of your kindness in general; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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