The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 12
Psst, Hush, catch him!”
Who acts: you · What happens: catch · To what, where: o’clock
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Psst | psst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Psst | punct |
| 3 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 catch | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hush | punct |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 catch | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | imperative | you not said here | o’clock = o'clock | Psst vocative | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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