The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 78

“Approach, lovely Princess,” he cried; “have no fear of such gentle and peaceable animals as we are.”

Who acts: Approach, we · What happens: cry, have, be, fear · To what, where: fear, such gentle animals · 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 (Approach, we), 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 Approach	punct
2	Approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Princess	punct
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Princess	amod
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Approach	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Approach	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Approach	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 fear	det
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	20 animals	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animals	amod
17	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animals	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 peaceable	cc
19	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gentle	conj
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fear	nmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 are	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 are	nsubj
23	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 have	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Approach		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	present	Approach not said here	no fear of such gentle animals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	be in a quote	present	we		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fear in a quote			such gentle animals	nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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