The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 62

Then he sprang through the door, calling, as he went: “The maiden is here; take her if you can!”

Who acts: man, maiden · What happens: spring, call, go, be, take · To what, where: door, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, maiden), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sprang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 calling	punct
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sprang	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 calling	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 here	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 here	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 here	cop
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
20	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 can	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 can	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	advcl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	man		the door	then		tree rules
2	call	gerund	man not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	man					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	the maiden				here property	tree rules
5	take in a quote	infinitive		maiden				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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