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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 8

“Hop, little cricket, to Ratibor, and chirp in his ear that I love him only, but that I am held captive by the gnome in his palace under the mountains.”

Who acts: messenger, gnome · What happens: chirp, love, hold · To what, where: ear, bee, messenger

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, gnome), 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

punctpunctamodconjpunctcaseappospunctccconjcasenmod:possoblmarknsubjadvclobjadvmodpunctccmarknsubjaux:passaclxcompcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodcasedetnmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTHopNOUN,PUNCTlittleADJcricketNOUN,PUNCTtoADPRatiborPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJchirpVERBinADPhisPRONearNOUNthatSCONJIPRONloveVERBhimPRONonlyADV,PUNCTbutCCONJthatSCONJIPRONamAUXheldVERBcaptiveADJbyADPtheDETgnomeNOUNinADPhisPRONpalaceNOUNunderADPtheDETmountainsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Hoppunct
2HophopNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3,,PUNCT_5 cricketpunct
4littlelittleADJDegree=Pos5 cricketamod
5cricketcricketNOUNNumber=Sing2 Hopconj
6,,PUNCT_8 Ratiborpunct
7totoADP_8 Ratiborcase
8RatiborRatiborPROPNNumber=Sing2 Hopappos
9,,PUNCT_11 chirppunct
10andandCCONJ_11 chirpcc
11chirpchirpVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 Hopconj
12ininADP_14 earcase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 earnmod:poss
14earearNOUNNumber=Sing11 chirpobl
15thatthatSCONJ_17 lovemark
16IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 lovensubj
17loveloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 chirpadvcl
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 loveobj
19onlyonlyADV_17 loveadvmod
20,,PUNCT_25 heldpunct
21butbutCCONJ_25 heldcc
22thatthatSCONJ_25 heldmark
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 heldnsubj
24ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 heldaux:pass
25heldholdVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 Hopacl
26captivecaptiveADJDegree=Pos25 heldxcomp
27bybyADP_29 gnomecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 gnomedet
29gnomegnomeNOUNNumber=Sing25 heldobl
30ininADP_32 palacecase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 palacenmod:poss
32palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing29 gnomenmod
33underunderADP_35 mountainscase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 mountainsdet
35mountainsmountainNOUNNumber=Plur32 palacenmod
36..PUNCT_2 Hoppunct
37”"PUNCT_2 Hoppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chirp in a quotepresentbee's earvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2love in a quotepresentmessengerbeevn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3hold in a quotepresent · passivethe gnome in bee's palace under the mountainsmessengercaptive propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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