The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 74
“Lineik, my sister,” he called, softly, “Laufer is weeping; help her, I pray you.”
Who acts: Lineik, Laufer · What happens: call, weep, help, pray · To what, where: Laufer, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lineik, Laufer), 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 | _ | 2 Lineik | punct |
| 2 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lineik | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sister | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lineik | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 softly | punct |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 9 called | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeping | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 weeping | punct |
| 14 | Laufer | Laufer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 weeping | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 weeping | aux |
| 16 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 called | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 called | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pray | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pray | nsubj |
| 22 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 pray | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Lineik | softly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | Laufer | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help in a quote | infinitive | Lineik not said here | Laufer | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | present | Lineik | you | tree rules |
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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