The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 10

‘They won’t hurt you,’ said the horse; ‘they are just the daughters of the whirlwind amusing themselves while they are waiting for the ogre of the moon.’

Who acts: heart · What happens: not hurt, say, be, wait · To what, where: you, horse, daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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	_	5 hurt	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hurt	advmod
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hurt	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 hurt	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 daughters	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 daughters	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 daughters	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 daughters	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 daughters	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 daughters	det
18	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 amusing	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 amusing	det
21	whirlwind	whirlwind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 amusing	amod
22	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daughters	nmod
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 amusing	obl
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 waiting	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 waiting	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 waiting	aux
27	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 ogre	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ogre	det
30	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waiting	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 moon	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 moon	det
33	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ogre	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hurt	future	heart	you		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		the horse		tree rules
3	is a	present	heart	the daughters	of the whirlwind amusing	tree rules
4	wait	present · progressive	heart		for the ogre of the moon	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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