The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 5

'You cannot bind me!' shouted Makoma, rushing upon him and striking with his hammer.

Who acts: You · What happens: not bind, shout, rush, strike · To what, where: me, Makoma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	_	5 bind	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 bind	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bind	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bind	advmod
5	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shouted	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bind	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 bind	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bind	punct
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rushing	punct
12	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shouted	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rushing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 striking	cc
16	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rushing	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 hammer	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hammer	nmod:poss
19	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 striking	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not bind	can	You	me		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	shout speech: express	past		Makoma		tree rules
3	rush	gerund			upon Makoma	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
4	strike	gerund			with Makoma's hammer	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hammer=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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