The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 86

‘Never fear, little mother,’ answered Martin.

Who acts: fear · What happens: answer · To what, where: Martin

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 (fear), 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	_	3 fear	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 fear	advmod
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	fear and little mother		Martin				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent martin=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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