The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 83
'He cannot hurt you,' answered the horse, 'and you will save my life.'
Who acts: man, you · What happens: not hurt, answer, save · To what, where: you, horse, life
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 (man, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hurt | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 save | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 save | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 save | aux |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | man | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | save | future | you | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/83/