The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 105

She looked round all terrified, and says she to me in a whisper, “I’m brought here to nurse the child of the king and queen of the fairies; but there is one chance of saving me.

Who acts: cave, I, one chance · What happens: look, say, be, bring, save · To what, where: cave, me, whisper, nurse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cave, I, one chance), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 terrified	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 terrified	det
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 says	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 whisper	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 whisper	det
14	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ’m	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 ’m	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 ’m	nsubj
18	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ’m	xcomp
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 brought	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 nurse	mark
22	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nurse	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 child	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 queen	cc
29	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 king	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 fairies	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fairies	det
32	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 queen	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 is	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 is	cc
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 is	expl
36	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 chance	nummod
38	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 is	nsubj
39	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 saving	mark
40	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 chance	acl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 saving	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	cave				round all terrified	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		cave	me	a whisper		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to i=Recipient
3	be in a quote	present	I					tree rules
4	bring in a quote	participle	I not said here	nurse		here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5	be in a quote	present	one chance			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	save in a quote	gerund	one chance not said here	me				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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