The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 28
“Ah! madam,” said Felicia, “a poor shepherdess who has nothing to lose does not fear robbers.”
Who acts: madam, poor shepherdess · What happens: say, have, lose, not fear · To what, where: nothing, robbers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, poor shepherdess), 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 | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fear | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fear | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shepherdess | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shepherdess | amod |
| 13 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fear | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shepherdess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 has | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lose | mark |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nothing | acl |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fear | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fear | advmod |
| 21 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 22 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fear | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fear | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a poor shepherdess | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | to-infinitive | a poor shepherdess not said here | nothing not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not fear in a quote | present · do-support | a poor shepherdess | robbers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robber=Stimulus |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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