The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 32
“Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help!” cried Peter again.
Who acts: my · What happens: fly, cry, help · 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 (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 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 cried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | 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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