The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 81

“Let me go at once, or I will give you another kick,” he cried, suiting the action to the word, and this time also his foot remained in the grasp of the man.

Who acts: breeze, foot · What happens: let, go, give, cry, suit, remain · To what, where: breeze, kick, you, action, grasp, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, 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 (breeze, foot), 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	18 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kick	det
14	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 suiting	punct
20	suiting	suit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cried	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 action	det
22	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suiting	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 word	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 word	det
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 suiting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remained	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 remained	cc
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obl:unmarked
30	also	also	ADV	_	33 remained	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 foot	nmod:poss
32	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	nsubj
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 grasp	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 grasp	det
36	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 man	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grasp	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		breeze					tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	breeze not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	give in a quote	future	breeze	another kick	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kick=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	breeze						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	suit	gerund	breeze not said here	the action				to the word	tree rules
6	remain	past	breeze's foot			the grasp of the man	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grasp=Location
7	grasp			the man					nom grasp «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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