The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 4
“Well, bunny, as you have come to me for protection I will see that nobody hurts you.”
Who acts: you, bunny, nobody · What happens: come, see, hurt · To what, where: bunny, King, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bunny, nobody), 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 bunny | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 bunny | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | bunny | bunny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 bunny | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 protection | case |
| 13 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 nobody | det |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 hurts | nsubj |
| 19 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 hurts | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | you | bunny not said here | the King = king | for protection | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bunny=Theme | ||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | bunny | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hurt in a quote | present | nobody | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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