The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 85

“When the apparition saw that I gave no heed to him he ceased to urge me, saying only: ‘Some day you will rue this,’ and looked at me sadly.

Who acts: apparition, you · What happens: see, give, cease, urge, say, rue · To what, where: heed, apparition, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apparition, you), 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	_	5 saw	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apparition	det
4	apparition	apparition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 heed	det
10	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ceased	nsubj
14	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 urge	mark
16	urge	urge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ceased	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 urge	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 urge	advcl
20	only	only	ADV	_	19 saying	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 rue	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 rue	punct
23	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rue	obl:unmarked
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 rue	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 rue	aux
27	rue	rue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 saying	ccomp
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 rue	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rue	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 rue	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 looked	obl
35	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	32 looked	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	the apparition					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	give in a quote	past	apparition	no heed	apparition			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to he=Recipient
3	cease in a quote	past	apparition					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	urge in a quote	to-infinitive	apparition not said here		apparition			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	apparition not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	rue in a quote	future	you	this		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
7	look in a quote	past	the apparition not said here				at apparition; sadly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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: «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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