English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 68
“Say who did it, and you shan't be harmed.”
Who acts: you · What happens: say, do, not harm · To what, where: gruel, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Say | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harmed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 harmed | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 harmed | nsubj |
| 9 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 harmed | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 harmed | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 harmed | aux:pass |
| 12 | harmed | harm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Say | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | gruel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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