The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 88

'Comfort yourself,' said the stranger kindly; 'they shall neither send your husband to prison nor sell your goods.

Who acts: stranger, sobs · What happens: comfort, say, send, sell · To what, where: yourself, husband, prison, goods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, sobs), 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 Comfort	punct
2	Comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Comfort	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Comfort	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Comfort	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 send	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 send	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 send	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 send	aux
14	neither	neither	ADV	_	15 send	advmod
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 prison	case
19	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 send	obl
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 sell	cc
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 send	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 goods	nmod:poss
23	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 sell	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comfort	infinitive		yourself			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the stranger			kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	shall	sobs = sob	your husband	prison	neither property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to prison=Destination
4	sell	infinitive	sobs = sob not said here	your goods			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=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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