The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 57

Suddenly someone cried: “Hold on a little longer, I see him in the distance; and his armour shines brighter, and his horse runs swifter, than yesterday.”

Who acts: someone, armour, horse · What happens: cry, hold, see, shine, run · To what, where: little, king, swifter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, armour, horse), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 cried	advmod
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Hold	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hold	punct
6	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 little	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Hold	obl
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 Hold	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Hold	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 distance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 distance	det
17	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 shines	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shines	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 armour	nmod:poss
21	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shines	nsubj
22	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
23	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 shines	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 runs	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 runs	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horse	nmod:poss
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 runs	nsubj
28	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cried	conj
29	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 runs	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 yesterday	punct
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 yesterday	case
32	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 runs	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 runs	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	someone				suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hold in a quote	infinitive			a little		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on little=Location
3	see in a quote	present	someone	king			in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	shine in a quote	present	king's armour				bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run in a quote	present	king's horse	swifter		yesterday		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swifter=Trajectory

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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