The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 1

“Stop, you promise-breaker,” shrieked he; “you have slipped through my hands once, but wait till I catch you again!”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: stop, promise, shriek, slip, wait, catch · To what, where: breaker, he, hands, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shrieked	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
5	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Stop	advcl
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 breaker	punct
7	breaker	breaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
10	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shrieked	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 slipped	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 slipped	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 slipped	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 slipped	aux
16	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 shrieked	parataxis
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 hands	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hands	nmod:poss
19	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slipped	obl
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 slipped	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 wait	cc
23	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 shrieked	parataxis
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 catch	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 catch	nsubj
26	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wait	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 catch	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 catch	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	you	breaker				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent breaker=Theme
3	shriek	past		he				tree rules
4	slip in a quote	present · perfect	you		my hands		once property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	wait in a quote	infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	catch in a quote	present	I	you		again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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