The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 140

"Give me quickly," cried he, "my boots of seven leagues, that I may go and catch them."

Who acts: you, Ogre · What happens: give, cry, go, catch · To what, where: me, Ogre, leagues · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ogre), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 Give	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 boots	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 boots	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 boots	nmod:poss
12	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 leagues	case
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 leagues	nummod
15	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 boots	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 go	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 catch	cc
22	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 catch	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here		me	quickly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	Ogre		my boots of seven leagues obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	go in a quote	may	Ogre				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch in a quote	infinitive	Ogre not said here	leagues = league			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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