The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 1

“Oh, dear little fox, help us, we implore you!” cried the ogre and his wife.

Who acts: we, ogre · What happens: help, implore, cry · To what, where: us, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, ogre), 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	_	8 help	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 help	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fox	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fox	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fox	amod
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	ccomp
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 help	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 implore	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 implore	nsubj
12	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 help	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 implore	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ogre	det
18	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wife	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ogre	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	help in a quote	infinitive		us	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
2	implore in a quote	present	we	you	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past	the ogre and fox's wife		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/26/1/