The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 176
‘Don’t be afraid,’ replied the Star Gazer gently.
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, reply · To what, where: Star Gazer
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 afraid | cop |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gazer | det |
| 10 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Gazer | compound |
| 11 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Star Gazer | gently property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazer=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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