The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 40

“You need not be afraid of that,” answered the Mermaid, “the Princess thinks of no one but you, and the frightful Dwarf cannot persuade her to look at him.”

Who acts: You, Mermaid, Princess, frightful Dwarf · What happens: not be, answer, think, not persuade, look · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Mermaid, Princess, frightful Dwarf), 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	_	6 afraid	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
3	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 afraid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mermaid	det
13	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinks	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 thinks	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 thinks	nsubj
18	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 one	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thinks	obl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 you	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 one	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 persuade	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 persuade	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Dwarf	det
27	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Dwarf	amod
28	Dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 persuade	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 persuade	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 persuade	advmod
31	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 persuade	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 persuade	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 look	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	You		of that; afraid property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Mermaid			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	the Princess		of no one	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not persuade in a quote	can	the frightful Dwarf	Princess		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
5	look in a quote	to-infinitive	Princess not said here		at Bellissima	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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