The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 27

‘Sire!’ he cried, ‘save yourself! the enemy are coming!’

Who acts: front, enemy · What happens: cry, save, come · To what, where: Sire, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front, enemy), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 save	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	ccomp
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 save	iobj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 coming	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 enemy	det
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coming	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 coming	aux
15	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 save	parataxis
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	front	Sire		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save	infinitive			yourself	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
3	come	present · progressive	the enemy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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