The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 107

“Ride him round the house!” cried Helga, growing pale at the mere idea.

What happens: ride, cry, grow · To what, where: Sigurd, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Ride	punct
2	Ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Ride	obj
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ride	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ride	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ride	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 growing	punct
12	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
13	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 growing	xcomp
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 idea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
16	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 idea	compound
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pale	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride in a quote	infinitive	Sigurd	the house		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme round house=Trajectory
2	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	gerund			pale property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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