The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 43

He went straight up to it and cried: “O mother, let me come in for pity’s sake!”

Who acts: head, mother · What happens: go, cry, let, come in · To what, where: hut, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
11	O	o	INTJ	_	12 mother	discourse
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 sake	case
19	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sake	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 pity	case
21	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	head		hut		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	cry speech: express	past	head not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive	mother	head			tree rules
4	come in in a quote	infinitive	head not said here			for pity's sake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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