The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 33

“Tell me how I can reach you?” cried he; but Wildrose smiled and shook her head, and sat down quietly.

Who acts: man, Wildrose · What happens: tell, reach, cry, smile, shake, sit down · To what, where: man, you, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Wildrose), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reach	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 reach	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 reach	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 smiled	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 smiled	cc
15	Wildrose	Wildrose	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 smiled	nsubj
16	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shook	cc
18	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 smiled	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shook	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	23 sat	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	reach in a quote	can	man	you			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	smile	past	Wildrose				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shake	past	Wildrose not said here	Wildrose's head			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
6	sit down	past				quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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