The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 29

“Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help!” cried Peter; and Quick-ear heard, and said to his brothers: “Listen, our master is calling us.”

Who acts: master, my · What happens: fly, cry, say, listen, call, help · To what, where: ear heard, brothers, us · 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 (master, my), 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	_	4 strong	punct
2	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Iron	punct
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cried	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weight	punct
6	World’s	World's	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 weight	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 World’s	punct
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ear	punct
10	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ear	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Quick	punct
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weight	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 help	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 help	nmod:poss
17	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cried	flat
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 heard	cc
24	Quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ear	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Quick	punct
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	compound
27	heard	heard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 brothers	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct
36	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 calling	punct
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 master	nmod:poss
39	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 calling	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 calling	aux
41	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 Listen	advcl
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 calling	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	infinitive				to my help result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to help=Result
2	cry speech: express	past		ear heard			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past			Eisenkopf's brothers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	listen in a quote	infinitive					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	call in a quote	present · progressive	our master		us		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
6	help in a quote		my				nom help «act transitive»: 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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