The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 9

'Shasasa! my daughter!' he cried wildly, 'go fetch me the mirror, for the white men are at hand.'

Who acts: Shasasa, white men · What happens: cry, fetch, be · To what, where: mirror, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shasasa, white men), 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 Shasasa	punct
2	Shasasa	Shasasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shasasa	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shasasa	appos
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shasasa	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Shasasa	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fetch	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fetch	punct
13	go	go	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 fetch	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mirror	det
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hand	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	25 hand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 men	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hand	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hand	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 hand	case
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Shasasa			wildly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fetch	infinitive	Shasasa not said here	the mirror	me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary mirror=Theme
3	is	present	the white men			for hand	tree rules

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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