The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 57

As she liked him she said: “He is my madman; let no one hurt him.”

Who acts: princess, pity, one · What happens: like, say, be, let, hurt · To what, where: pity, madman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, pity, one), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 liked	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 madman	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 madman	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 madman	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 madman	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 madman	nmod:poss
12	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hurt	nsubj
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hurt	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	past	princess	pity	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	pity	my madman	tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
5	hurt in a quote	past	no one	pity	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient

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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