The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 48
‘Don’t worry or distress yourself, dear father,’ answered Prince Milan.
What happens: not worry, distress, answer · To what, where: yourself, Prince Milan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 distress | cc |
| 6 | distress | distress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 worry | conj |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 distress | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 father | punct |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 father | amod |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worry | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Milan | compound |
| 15 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not worry | infinitive · do-support | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | distress | infinitive | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Prince Milan | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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