The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 157
‘There is nothing to fear,’ replied the old mother.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, fear, reply · To what, where: old mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fear | mark |
| 6 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mother | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mother | amod |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fear | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old mother | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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