The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 19
The Crane told him not to fear, that he would be perfectly safe.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: tell, not fear, be · To what, where: latter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crane | det |
| 2 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fear | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fear | mark |
| 7 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 safe | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 safe | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 safe | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 safe | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 safe | cop |
| 13 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 14 safe | advmod |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fear | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Crane | latter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not fear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Crane not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | would | Crane | perfectly, safe property | 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 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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