Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 11
And such a dream can do no harm.
Who acts: dream · What happens: do · To what, where: harm
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 dream | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 harm | det |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | such dream | no harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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