The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 53

'What harm can a poor boy like me do a great Troll like you?' answered Pinkel. '

Who acts: harm, me, poor boy · What happens: boy, do, answer · To what, where: great Troll, Pinkel

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, me, poor boy), 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	_	7 boy	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 harm	det
3	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	aux
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Troll	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Troll	amod
13	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	boy	can	what harm				tree rules
2	do	present	me	a great Troll		like you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Eventuality
3	answer speech: assert	past	a poor boy		Pinkel		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pinkel=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: «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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