The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 10

‘Oh! prate away,’ said she, ‘your son will never be anything to boast of.

Who acts: most, son · What happens: prate away, say, not be, boast · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, son), 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 prate	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 prate	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	prate	prate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 prate	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 prate	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 prate	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 anything	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 anything	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 anything	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 anything	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 anything	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	cop
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 said	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 boast	mark
19	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	acl
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 boast	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prate away	infinitive			away property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	most			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a	future	your son	anything		tree rules
4	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	most not said here			vn complain-37.8 «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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