The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 47

Then the daughter said to Elsa, ‘Fear nothing, my mother will be your friend.

Who acts: daughter, mother · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Elsa, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, mother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Elsa	case
6	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
9	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	compound
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 Elsa	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 friend	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 friend	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 friend	cop
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the daughter		Elsa		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elsa=Recipient
2	is a	future	my mother	your friend					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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