The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 15

Seizing the crown, she sprang on to the window, crying: 'Monkey, come to me!'

Who acts: parrot, Monkey · What happens: seize, spring on, cry, come · To what, where: crown, window, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, Monkey), 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	Seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sprang	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crown	det
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seizing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seizing	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sprang	nsubj
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 sprang	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crying	punct
12	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sprang	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
15	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	seize	gerund	parrot not said here	the crown			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
2	spring on	past	parrot			the window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
3	cry speech: express	gerund	parrot not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	infinitive	Monkey		me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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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