The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 12

“Be off with you!” cried her mother, seizing an old broom-handle from behind the door.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, cry, seize · To what, where: old broom handle, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 off	cop
3	off	off	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 off	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 off	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 off	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seizing	punct
12	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 handle	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 handle	amod
15	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 handle	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 broom	punct
17	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seizing	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 door	case
19	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 door	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seizing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive				with you; off property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Lizina's mother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seize	gerund	Lizina's mother not said here	a old broom handle	the door		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent handle=Theme from door=Source

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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