The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 206

No harm should happen to her, he said; she should only be driven about a little, and if he took his finger out more than once, she should have ten dollars more.

Who acts: harm, woman · What happens: happen, say, drive, take out, have · To what, where: woman, finger, ten dollars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, woman), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 harm	det
2	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happen	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 driven	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 driven	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 driven	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 driven	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 driven	aux:pass
15	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 little	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 driven	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 took	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 finger	nmod:poss
25	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	out	out	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 took	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 more	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happen	conj
34	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 dollars	nummod
35	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 dollars	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	should	no harm		woman		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	harm				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drive	should · passive		woman		about a little	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about little=Destination
4	take out a condition, not said to happen	past	harm	harm's finger		out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
5	have	should	woman	ten dollars			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=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 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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