The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 84
“Do not alarm yourself, prince,” replied the fairy; “you ran a risk in fetching the water of the fountain of lions for your father, but there is no danger in finding this man.
Who acts: fairy, you, danger · What happens: do, reply, run, fetch, be, find · To what, where: alarm, risk, water, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, you, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 alarm | advmod |
| 4 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Do | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prince | punct |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 risk | det |
| 18 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 fetching | mark |
| 20 | fetching | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ran | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetching | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fountain | det |
| 25 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lions | case |
| 27 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fountain | nmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lions | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 is | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 is | cc |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 is | expl |
| 34 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 danger | det |
| 36 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 is | nsubj |
| 37 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 38 finding | mark |
| 38 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 danger | acl |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 finding | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | alarm | yourself obl:unmarked; prince obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the fairy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run in a quote | past | you | a risk | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | fetch in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the water of the fountain of lions for your father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | no danger | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find in a quote | gerund | no danger not said here | this man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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