The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 47

At first the youth tried to collect them again, but he soon found that it was no use, and he cried in despair: “Tritill, Litill, and all my birds, come and help me!”

Who acts: youth, breeze, birds · What happens: try, collect, find, be, cry, come · To what, where: feathers, use, Tritill, despair, 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, breeze, birds), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tried	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 collect	mark
7	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 collect	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 collect	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 found	advmod
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 use	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 use	cop
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 use	det
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 despair	case
25	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Tritill	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Tritill	punct
28	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Litill	punct
30	Litill	Litill	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Tritill	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 come	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 birds	det:predet
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 birds	nmod:poss
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 come	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 help	cc
39	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 help	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the youth						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	collect not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	feathers = feather			again		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	find	past	youth					soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	breeze	no use					tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past	youth	Tritill and Litill		despair			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location
6	come in a quote	infinitive	my birds						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	help in a quote	infinitive	my birds not said here		youth				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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