The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 53
“Nothing, your Majesty, or you would hurt his feelings,” answered the fox.
Who acts: you, fox · What happens: hurt, answer · To what, where: feelings · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox), 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 Nothing | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nothing | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurt | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hurt | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hurt | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Nothing | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hurt | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nothing | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | would | you | Piro's feelings | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fox | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/53/