Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 29

"Row back!" cried the prince. "

Who acts: you, prince · What happens: row back, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, prince), 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 Row	punct
2	Row	row	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Row	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Row	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Row	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Row	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Row	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Row	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row back in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	the prince						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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