The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 17

“Come in, come in,” said she, “so fine a gentleman will do us no harm.”

Who acts: woman, gentleman · What happens: come in, say, do · To what, where: harm, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, gentleman), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fine	advmod
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gentleman	det
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	parataxis
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	iobj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 harm	det
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come in in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	future	a gentleman	no harm	us	tree rules

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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