The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 48

'Oh! dear mother, spare me!' shrieked Pinkel, falling on his knees, and looking wildly about him.

What happens: spare, shriek, fall, look · To what, where: me, Pinkel, knees

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	7 spare	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 spare	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shrieked	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 spare	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 spare	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 spare	punct
11	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shrieked	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 falling	punct
14	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 shrieked	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knees	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knees	nmod:poss
17	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 falling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looking	cc
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 falling	conj
21	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	20 looking	advmod
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spare	infinitive	me			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
2	shriek	past	Pinkel			tree rules
3	fall	gerund		Pinkel's knees		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
4	look	gerund			about Pinkel; wildly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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