The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 76
“You have beaten me,” she gasped, so now, listen to me.
Who acts: You, giantess · What happens: beat, gasp, listen · To what, where: giantess, me · 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: who acts (You, giantess), 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 beaten | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | aux |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gasped | parataxis |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gasped | nsubj |
| 9 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listen | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 listen | advmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 listen | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 now | punct |
| 14 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gasped | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 listen | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | present · perfect | You | giantess | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gasp | past | giantess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | giantess not said here | me | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=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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