The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 16
‘Do not fear,’ he answered; ‘she is too clever and intelligent to lose her way.
Who acts: you, woodcutter, child · What happens: not fear, answer, be, lose · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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, woodcutter, child), 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 fear | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fear | advmod |
| 4 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fear | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 clever | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 clever | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clever | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 clever | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 clever | advmod |
| 14 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fear | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 intelligent | cc |
| 16 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clever | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lose | mark |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 intelligent | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lose | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fear | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | woodcutter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | child | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | child not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | child not said here | child's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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