The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 117
“Have no fear,” said Morgiana; “the man cannot harm you: he is dead.”
Who acts: Morgiana, man, merchant · What happens: have, say, not harm, be · To what, where: fear, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morgiana, man, merchant), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fear | det |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Morgiana | Morgiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 harm | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 harm | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 harm | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 harm | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 harm | advmod |
| 15 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 harm | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Morgiana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | can | the man | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | merchant | dead property | tree rules |
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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