The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 86
‘Trust me and eat as you did before, and no harm shall happen to you,’ said she.
Who acts: you, harm · What happens: trust, eat, do, happen, say · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, harm), 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 Trust | punct |
| 2 | Trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Trust | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eat | cc |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Trust | conj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 did | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 happen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happen | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 harm | det |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Trust | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 happen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | infinitive | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | you | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | happen | shall | no harm | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | harm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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