The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 50

The girl watched with great excitement from the palace window, and called: “O nurse, if you don’t catch it, I will kill you!”

Who acts: girl, you · What happens: watch, call, not catch, kill · To what, where: palace window, nurse, window, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (girl, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 excitement	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 excitement	amod
6	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 window	compound
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
13	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watched	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 nurse	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 nurse	punct
16	O	o	INTJ	_	17 nurse	discourse
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 catch	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 catch	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 catch	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 catch	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 catch	advmod
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 watched	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 catch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kill	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 kill	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 catch	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 catch	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the girl		the palace window	with great excitement	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	call speech: express	past	the girl not said here	nurse			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you	window			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	kill in a quote	future	the girl = girl	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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