The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 59

“Let me in, I pray you, dear mother,” cried he.

Who acts: man · What happens: let in, pray, cry · To what, where: man, you · 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 (man), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	2 Let	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pray	nsubj
7	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pray	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mother	amod
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pray	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in in a quote	infinitive		man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	pray in a quote	present	man	you	dear mother obl	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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