The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 39
‘I fear nothing when I am doing right,’ said Jack.
Who acts: I, Jack · What happens: fear, do, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jack), 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 fear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fear | nsubj |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 fear | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 doing | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fear | parataxis |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 doing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | nothing | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | I | right property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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