The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 92
“Fly,” she cried; “fly while you have yet time, before that monster sees you.”
Who acts: princess, you, monster · What happens: cry, have, see · To what, where: Fly, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, you, monster), 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 Fly | punct |
| 2 | Fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fly | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 fly | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fly | punct |
| 9 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | advcl |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sees | punct |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 sees | mark |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 monster | det |
| 18 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sees | nsubj |
| 19 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 sees | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sees | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | princess | Fly | fly obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | that monster | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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