The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 71

But the horse answered: 'Do not be frightened; call the little fish whose life you saved, and she will bring it to you.'

Who acts: horse, you · What happens: answer, not frighten, call, save, bring · To what, where: little fish, life, fish, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 Do	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 call	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 frightened	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 frightened	aux:pass
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Do	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
12	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fish	amod
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 call	obj
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fish	nmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 saved	nsubj
19	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 life	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bring	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bring	aux
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 call	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the horse			tree rules
2	not frighten	infinitive · passive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	call	infinitive · do-support			the little fish the little fish the little fish's life's life	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient
4	save	past	you	the little fish the little fish life's life's life not said here		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	bring	future	horse	fish	you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Destination

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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