The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 25
“Come down at once, you gallows bird,” he cried.
Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: come down, bird, cry · To what, where: gallows bird · 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, Peter), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bird | nsubj |
| 8 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bird | compound |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bird | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down in a quote | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | bird in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Peter | gallows bird not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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.
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