The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 44
“Do not hurt me,” answered the sparrow, “and I will tell you with all my heart.”
Who acts: sparrow · What happens: not hurt, answer, tell · To what, where: sparrow, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow), 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 | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 heart | det:predet |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the sparrow = sparrow | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the sparrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the sparrow = sparrow | you | with my heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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