The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 71

‘Don’t cry,’ said the old woman, ‘but tell me truly what is the matter.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: not cry, say, tell, be · To what, where: me, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 cry	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woman	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	truly	truly	ADV	_	20 matter	advmod
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 matter	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 matter	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 matter	det
20	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	infinitive · do-support					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the old woman not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	present		the matter		truly property	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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