Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 31

"Tyrant!" was Tell's proud answer, "this arrow was for your heart if I had hurt my child."

Who acts: Tyrant, arrow · What happens: be, hurt · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tyrant, arrow), 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	_	2 Tyrant	punct
2	Tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tell	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tyrant	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tyrant	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Tell	cop
6	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Tell	case
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 arrow	det
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heart	cop
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 heart	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heart	nmod:poss
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tell	obl
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 hurt	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hurt	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hurt	aux
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Tell	ccomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 child	nmod:poss
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hurt	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	Tyrant		tell property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	this arrow		for your heart	tree rules
3	hurt a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Tyrant	my child		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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