The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 68
“Oh, my brother, my dear little brother, don’t do that,” cried the magpie, hopping about in his anguish.
Who acts: magpie · What happens: not do, cry, hop, anguish · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie), 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 | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brother | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 magpie | det |
| 20 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hopping | punct |
| 22 | hopping | hop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 cried | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 anguish | case |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 anguish | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 anguish | nmod:poss |
| 26 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hopping | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | infinitive · do-support | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the magpie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hop | gerund | the magpie not said here | about magpie's anguish | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about anguish=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | anguish | magpie | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: 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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