The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 73

“But why not, queen of my soul; have I not gone there always, and nothing has harmed me, flower of my heart?”

Who acts: face · What happens: not go, harm · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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	_	14 gone	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 why	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gone	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 why	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 queen	punct
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 soul	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soul	nmod:poss
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 gone	advmod
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 gone	advmod
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 gone	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 harmed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 harmed	cc
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 harmed	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 harmed	aux
21	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gone	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 harmed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flower	punct
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harmed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 heart	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flower	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 harmed	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	present · perfect	face			there		always property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	harm in a quote	present · perfect · passive		nothing				flower of my heart obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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