The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 38
“Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help, or I am a dead man!”
Who acts: silly, my · What happens: fly, be, help · To what, where: dead man
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 (silly, 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 | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 man | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | 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 | is a in a quote | present | silly | a dead man | tree rules | ||||
| 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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