The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 48
“Fear nothing, Princess,” said the Captain of the Guard.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: say · 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 (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 | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | compound |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Captain | det |
| 10 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Guard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Guard | det |
| 13 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Captain | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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