The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 52
“Be off,” cried Paul, snatching up the saucepan as he spoke.
Who acts: Paul · What happens: be, cry, snatch up, speak · To what, where: saucepan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 off | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 off | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 off | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 snatching | punct |
| 9 | snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 snatching | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 saucepan | det |
| 12 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snatching | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 snatching | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | off property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Paul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | snatch up | gerund | Paul not said here | the saucepan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | Paul | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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