The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 15

They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to ‘put themselves on their country,’ and be tried by a jury of children.

Who acts: Fancy, jury · What happens: say, not see, be, put, try · To what, where: harm, Fancy, country · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fancy, jury), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 see	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ready	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ready	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ready	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	19 put	mark
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	xcomp
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 put	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 country	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 country	nmod:poss
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tried	cc
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 tried	aux:pass
28	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 jury	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 jury	det
31	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tried	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 jury	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fancy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see	past · do-support	Fancy	any harm	harm		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus
3	is	past	Fancy			ready property	tree rules
4	put	to-infinitive	Fancy not said here	Fancy	Fancy's country		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on country=Destination
5	try	infinitive · passive	a jury of children				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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