Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 16
But if one has not done anything wrong,' she thought, 'nothing evil can harm one.
Who acts: one, maid, nothing evil · What happens: not do, think, harm · To what, where: anything, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, maid, nothing evil), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 done | mark |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 done | obj |
| 8 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 done | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 harm | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 evil | punct |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 evil | compound |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 harm | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 harm | aux |
| 18 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 harm | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | one | anything | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | maid | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | harm | can | nothing evil | one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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