The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 46

I have never done you any harm, and have always spoken well of you to the King.

Who acts: I · What happens: not do, speak · To what, where: harm, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 done	iobj
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 harm	det
7	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spoken	cc
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 spoken	advmod
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	parataxis
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 spoken	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 spoken	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spoken	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present · perfect	I	any harm	you				tree rules
2	speak speech: other	present · perfect						of you; to the King; always, well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent

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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