The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 14
“Why, who said anything about doing harm?” said the princess.
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, do · To what, where: anything, harm · 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 (princess), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 anything | acl |
| 9 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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