The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 26
‘What harm has the poor beast done?’ said Martin.
Who acts: harm, poor beast · What happens: have, do, say · To what, where: poor beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, poor beast), 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 has | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 harm | det |
| 3 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beast | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beast | amod |
| 7 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beast | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 12 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | what harm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | the poor beast not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the poor beast | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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