The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 42
A cry came up in answer, ‘O servant of God! we have been in the well a long time; in God’s name get us out!’
Who acts: cry, we, God · What happens: come up, be, get out, name · To what, where: servant, answer, long time, well, us, name
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, we, God), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cry | det |
| 2 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 answer | case |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 servant | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 servant | discourse |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 God | case |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 servant | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 God | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 time | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 well | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 19 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 God | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 name | case |
| 25 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 God | case |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obl |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 get | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 get | compound:prt |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | a cry | servant of God | answer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present · perfect | we | a long time | the well | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get out | present | a cry not said here | us | God's name | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | God | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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