The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 13

“Please let me go,” said Niels; “I did you as much good as harm, at any rate.”

Who acts: Niels · What happens: let, go, say, do · To what, where: Niels, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Niels), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Please	please	INTJ	_	3 let	discourse
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 did	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 did	xcomp
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 harm	case
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 good	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rate	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 rate	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 rate	det
23	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		Niels		tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	Niels not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Niels			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	past	Niels	you	good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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.

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