The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

'Help!' cried the antelope, 'for I was doing no harm, yet I have been caught, and would have been eaten, had I not defended myself.'

Who acts: Help, I · What happens: cry, do, catch, eat, have, not defend · To what, where: antelope, harm, I, myself

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Help, I), 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 Help	punct
2	Help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 antelope	det
7	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 doing	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 doing	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 harm	det
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 doing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 caught	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 caught	aux:pass
21	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cried	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eaten	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eaten	cc
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 eaten	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 eaten	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 eaten	aux:pass
27	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 caught	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 defended	nsubj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 defended	advmod
32	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 had	ccomp
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 defended	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Help	the antelope	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Topic
2	do	past · progressive	I	no harm	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
3	catch	present · perfect · passive		I	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	eat	would · perfect · passive			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
5	have	past			tree rules
6	not defend	past	I	myself	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary

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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