The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 17
“Oh, nothing is likely to happen to me,” returned the boy.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, happen, return · To what, where: fox, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 likely | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 likely | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 likely | cop |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 returned | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 happen | mark |
| 8 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 likely | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 happen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 likely | punct |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | nothing | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the fox = fox | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the boy | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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 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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