The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 37

The youth stared at it in despair, then the old beggar’s words flashed into his mind, and he cried: “Tritill, Tritill, come and help me!”

Who acts: youth, Tritill, old beggar · What happens: stare, flash, cry, come, help, word · To what, where: words, mind, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Tritill, old beggar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	nsubj
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stared	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 despair	case
7	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 words	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 words	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beggar	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beggar	amod
12	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 beggar	case
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stared	parataxis
15	flashed	flash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 words	acl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 mind	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mind	nmod:poss
18	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flashed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cried	nsubj
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stared	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Tritill	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Tritill	punct
25	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 come	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Tritill	punct
27	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Tritill	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 help	cc
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 come	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	the youth				in despair; at work	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	flash	participle		the old beggar's words not said here		youth's mind		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into mind=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past	youth					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive	Tritill and Tritill					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help in a quote	infinitive	Tritill and Tritill not said here		youth			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
6	word		the old beggar					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	mind		youth					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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