The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 55

“He took me prisoner, too,” answered she, “and I cannot shake off his chains.”

Who acts: man, I · What happens: take, answer, not shake off · To what, where: prisoner, me, woman, chains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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	_	3 took	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 took	iobj
5	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 too	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shake	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 shake	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shake	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shake	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 shake	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 shake	advmod
18	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	parataxis
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 shake	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chains	nmod:poss
21	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shake	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 shake	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take in a quote	past	man	prisoner	me	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			woman	tree rules
3	not shake off in a quote	can	I	man's chains		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=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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