The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 110

“But it can’t do him any harm,” argued Sigurd; “you don’t know how careful I will be.

Who acts: sword, Sigurd, you · What happens: not do, argue, not know, be · To what, where: Gullfaxi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, Sigurd, you), 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	_	12 argued	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 argued	csubj:pass
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
12	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 argued	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 argued	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 careful	advmod
21	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 know	ccomp
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 be	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 careful	cop
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	can	sword	Gullfaxi		tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	past	Sigurd			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	infinitive			careful property	tree rules

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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