The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 43

‘Houarn, save us, we entreat you, and save yourself too!’ murmured they, not daring to raise their voices.

Who acts: we, wines · What happens: save, entreat, murmur, not dare, not raise · To what, where: Houarn, you, yourself, voices · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wines), 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	_	4 save	punct
2	Houarn	houarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Houarn	punct
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 murmured	ccomp
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 save	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 entreat	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 entreat	nsubj
8	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 save	parataxis
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 entreat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 save	cc
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 save	conj
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 save	iobj
14	too	too	ADV	_	12 save	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct
17	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 murmured	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 daring	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 daring	advmod
21	daring	dare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 murmured	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 raise	mark
23	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 daring	xcomp
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 voices	nmod:poss
25	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 raise	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 murmured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	save	infinitive		Houarn		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	entreat	present	we		you	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	save	infinitive			yourself	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
4	murmur speech: other	past	wines = wine			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not dare	gerund	wines = wine not said here			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not raise	to-infinitive	wines = wine not said here	wines's voices		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=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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