The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 16

And, indeed, they still see no harm in what they have done; nay, like Father William in the poem, they are ready ‘to do it again and again.’

Who acts: Fancy · What happens: see, do, be · To what, where: harm

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 see	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 what	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
16	nay	nay	INTJ	_	27 ready	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 William	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 William	case
19	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 William	compound
20	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 nay	vocative
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 poem	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 poem	det
23	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 William	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nay	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ready	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ready	cop
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	parataxis
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 do	mark
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 do	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 again	cc
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 again	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Fancy	no harm	still	indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus
2	do	present · perfect	Fancy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Fancy			ready property	tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive	Fancy not said here	harm	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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