The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 44
I won't hurt you,' cried he, but his words were carried away by the wind.
Who acts: I, wind, doe · What happens: not hurt, cry, carry away, word · To what, where: you, doe, words
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wind, doe), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cried | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 wind | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | future | I | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | doe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry away | past · passive | the wind | doe's words | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | word | doe | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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