Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 110

Ah, mammie, save me, save me!" cried the girl, and her mother slammed the door and barred the entrance as quickly as possible.

Who acts: mother · What happens: save, cry, slam, bar · To what, where: mammie, me, girl, door, entrance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 save	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	mammie	mammie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mammie	punct
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 save	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 save	punct
8	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 save	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 save	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slammed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 slammed	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slammed	nsubj
19	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 slammed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 barred	cc
23	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slammed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 entrance	det
25	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 barred	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 quickly	advmod
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	23 barred	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 possible	mark
29	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 quickly	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	save	infinitive		mammie		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	save	infinitive		me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the girl		tree rules
4	slam in a quote	past	Mother's mother	the door		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	bar in a quote	past	Mother's mother not said here	the entrance	quickly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Theme

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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