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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 100

'I am sorry I frightened you,' said Hans, when he thought he could safely speak to the princess without making her scream. '

Who acts: I, Hans, princess · What happens: be, frighten, say, think, speak, make · To what, where: you, scream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Hans, princess), 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

punctnsubjcopnsubjccompobjpunctpunctparataxisnsubjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisnsubjauxadvmodccompcasedetoblmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctroot'PUNCTIPRONamAUXsorryADJIPRONfrightenedVERByouPRON,PUNCT'PUNCTsaidVERBHansPROPN,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONthoughtVERBhePRONcouldAUXsafelyADVspeakVERBtoADPtheDETprincessNOUNwithoutSCONJmakingVERBherPRONscreamNOUN.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1''PUNCT_4 sorrypunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 sorrynsubj
3ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 sorrycop
4sorrysorryADJDegree=Posrootroot
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 frightenednsubj
6frightenedfrightenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sorryccomp
7youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs6 frightenedobj
8,,PUNCT_4 sorrypunct
9''PUNCT_4 sorrypunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sorryparataxis
11HansHansPROPNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
12,,PUNCT_15 thoughtpunct
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 thoughtadvmod
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 thoughtnsubj
15thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sorryparataxis
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 speaknsubj
17couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin19 speakaux
18safelysafelyADV_19 speakadvmod
19speakspeakVERBVerbForm=Inf15 thoughtccomp
20totoADP_22 princesscase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 princessdet
22princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing19 speakobl
23withoutwithoutSCONJ_24 makingmark
24makingmakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 speakadvcl
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 screamnmod:poss
26screamscreamNOUNNumber=Sing24 makingobj
27..PUNCT_4 sorrypunct
28''PUNCT_4 sorrypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentIsorry propertytree rules
2frightenpastIyouvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3say speech: assertpastHansvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4think speech: otherpastHansvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5speak speech: othercouldHansto the princess; safely propertyvn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent
6makegerundHans not said hereprincess's screamvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scream=Product
7screamprincessnom scream «communication intransitive»: 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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