The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 230

But Ludovine repeated, ‘Won’t you tell me?’ in such a tender voice he did not know how to resist her.

Who acts: Ludovine, you, soldier · What happens: repeat, not tell, not know, resist · To what, where: me, tender voice, Ludovine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ludovine, you, soldier), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 repeated	cc
2	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 repeated	nsubj
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	Wo	wo	INTJ	_	9 tell	discourse
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 repeated	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 voice	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 voice	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
16	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 voice	compound
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 know	advmod
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 voice	acl:relcl
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 resist	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 resist	mark
24	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 know	ccomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 resist	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	repeat	past	Ludovine				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not tell speech: assert	present	you		me	such tender voice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	not know	past · do-support	soldier	such tender voice not said here			tree rules
4	resist	to-infinitive		Ludovine			tree rules

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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