The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 11
Suddenly the snake cried: “O shepherd! for the love of heaven save me from this fire!”
Who acts: snake · What happens: cry, save, love · To what, where: O shepherd, snake, fire, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 shepherd | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 shepherd | punct |
| 7 | O | o | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 shepherd | nummod |
| 8 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 shepherd | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 love | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 love | det |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 heaven | case |
| 14 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nmod |
| 15 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 save | iobj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 save | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 save | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the snake | O shepherd | suddenly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | save in a quote | present | the snake = snake | this fire | for the love of heaven | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme for love=Asset from fire=Source | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | heaven | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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