The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 25
‘Fear nothing; it will be all right,’ replied the dove, as she flew away again.
Who acts: command, nothing, scent · What happens: be, reply, fly away · To what, where: dove
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (command, nothing, scent), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | compound |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 right | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 right | cop |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 right | advmod |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dove | det |
| 14 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 flew | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 replied | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | command | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | nothing | the dove | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dove=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly away | past | scent | again | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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