The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 16

He flung himself down before the throne, panting out, “Here will I die; kill me at once, cruel father, for I cannot bear this shame any longer.”

Who acts: Omar, queen · What happens: fling down, pant out, die, kill, not bear · To what, where: Omar, queen, shame · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omar, queen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flung	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 flung	compound:prt
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 throne	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 throne	det
7	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flung	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 panting	punct
9	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flung	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 panting	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
13	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 die	advmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 panting	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 kill	punct
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 die	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kill	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 kill	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 father	amod
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 panting	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bear	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 bear	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bear	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bear	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 bear	advmod
30	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flung	parataxis
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 shame	det
32	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bear	obj
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 bear	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 bear	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling down	past	Omar	Omar		before the throne		tree rules
2	pant out	gerund	Omar not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	future	queen		here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	kill in a quote	infinitive	queen not said here	queen				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	not bear in a quote	can	queen	this shame			long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shame=Patient

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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