Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 102
"Do you think that I would hurt your little plant?" he said. "
Who acts: you, I, al · What happens: think, hurt, say · To what, where: little plant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, al), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hurt | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plant | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plant | amod |
| 11 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurt | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | would | I | your little plant | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | al | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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