The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 36

And the maiden told her to fear nothing, for she never hurt anything, and was very grateful for the oven's kindness in giving her such a beautiful white loaf.

Who acts: maiden, clematis · What happens: tell, fear, not hurt, be, give · To what, where: clematis, nothing, anything, beautiful white loaf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, clematis), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fear	mark
7	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 fear	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurt	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 hurt	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hurt	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 hurt	advmod
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fear	conj
14	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 hurt	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grateful	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grateful	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grateful	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 grateful	advmod
19	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 kindness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oven	det
22	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kindness	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 oven	case
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grateful	obl
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 giving	mark
26	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 grateful	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 giving	iobj
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	32 loaf	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 loaf	det
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 loaf	amod
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 loaf	amod
32	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 giving	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the maiden		clematis		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	nothing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	not hurt	past	clematis	anything			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Patient
4	is	past				for the oven's kindness; grateful property	tree rules
5	give	gerund		such beautiful white loaf	clematis		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient loaf=Theme

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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