The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 11

“Oh, why does not some wild beast devour me?” he cried to himself; “never, never, can I go again amongst my fellow-men!

Who acts: wild beast, beast · What happens: devour, cry, not go · To what, where: beast, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild beast, beast), 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	_	10 devour	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 devour	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 devour	advmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 devour	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 beast	advmod
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 beast	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beast	amod
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 devour	nsubj
10	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 devour	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 devour	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 devour	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 cried	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 never	punct
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 go	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 never	punct
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	32 men	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 men	nmod:poss
30	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 men	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 fellow	punct
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 go	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	devour in a quote	present · do-support	some wild beast	beast				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	beast		mind			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not go in a quote	can	beast			again	amongst my fellow men	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst man=Location

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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