The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 231

‘After all,’ he said to himself, ‘what does it matter telling her the secret, as long as I don’t give her the cloak.’

Who acts: soldier, I · What happens: say, matter, tell, not give · To what, where: soldier, voice, secret, Ludovine, cloak · 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 (soldier, I), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 matter	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 matter	obj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 matter	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 matter	expl
15	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 matter	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 telling	iobj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 secret	det
19	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 telling	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 long	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 matter	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 give	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 give	advmod
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 long	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cloak	det
30	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	soldier		soldier	after all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	matter	present · do-support	soldier not said here	voice			long property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	soldier not said here	the secret	Ludovine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient secret=Topic
4	not give	present · do-support	I	the cloak	Ludovine			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cloak=Theme

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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