The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 11

When she presently bade them farewell, she told them never to tell anyone else that they had seen her.

Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain · What happens: bade, tell, not tell, see · To what, where: Sylvain, anyone, Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Sylvain), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bade	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bade	nsubj
3	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
4	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bade	obj
6	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	4 bade	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 tell	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 tell	obj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 anyone	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 seen	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tell	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seen	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Fairy	Sylvain		farewell, presently property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Fairy		Sylvain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here		anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
4	see	past · perfect	Sylvain	Fairy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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