Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 47

"Let him alone," said the mother; "he is not doing any harm."

Who acts: mother, child · What happens: let, say, not do · To what, where: child, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, child), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Let	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 doing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 doing	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 doing	advmod
15	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 harm	det
17	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		child	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do in a quote	present · progressive	child	any harm		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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: «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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