The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 133

He told these under-officers that he was one of that kind of folk who never are afraid of anything.

Who acts: Christian, folk · What happens: tell, be, not be · To what, where: these, officers, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, folk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 told	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 officers	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 under	punct
6	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 one	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 one	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 told	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kind	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 folk	case
15	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 afraid	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 afraid	advmod
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 afraid	cop
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 folk	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 anything	case
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 afraid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Christian	these	officers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient
2	is a	past	Christian	one		of that kind of folk	tree rules
3	not is	present	folk			of anything; afraid property	tree rules

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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