The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 48

‘Did not I tell you, my father, that salt was the best thing in life?

Who acts: I, salt · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: you, best thing, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, salt), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 salt	det
12	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 life	case
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thing	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is a	past	that salt	the best thing		life			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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