The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 114

‘Never fear,’ said his thirsty comrade.

What happens: not fear, say · To what, where: thirsty comrade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 comrade	nmod:poss
8	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 comrade	amod
9	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fear	infinitive							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		Simpleton's thirsty comrade					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 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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