The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 37
But the old Queen laughed, and said to her son: ‘Don’t worry, my child; you see, the Fairy has protected you so far, and the Sun has found no one to kill you.
Who acts: old Queen, you · What happens: laugh, say, not worry, see, protect, find · To what, where: son, child, Fairy, Sun, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Queen, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 laughed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 worry | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 worry | punct |
| 14 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 worry | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 worry | advmod |
| 16 | worry | worry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 child | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod:poss |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 worry | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 protected | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fairy | det |
| 25 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 protected | aux |
| 27 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 see | conj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 protected | obj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 far | advmod |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 protected | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sun | det |
| 34 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 found | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 protected | conj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 found | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 kill | mark |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 found | ccomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the old Queen | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old Queen not said here | Queen's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not worry | infinitive · do-support | my child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | protect | present · perfect · passive | the Fairy | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | present · perfect · passive | the Sun | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | kill | to-infinitive | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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